CD-ROM Review: Who's on First?

Who's on First?

Jesse Friedman

Ah, spring is here. Can baseball be far behind? Little League baseball is played by 2.8 million boys and girls in over 90 countries. By compiling Know Your Baseball, a CD-ROM that teaches the rules and skills that make up the game, Axia Multimedia provides a much-needed reference guide.

Using visual displays, audio, dramatizations, and real-life footage, the producers of Know Your Baseball offer instruction in the fundamentals of almost every aspect of the game, from bunting to stealing bases to fielding a fly ball. Once you've selected which element of the game you want to work on, you can learn in several ways, such as listening to the advice of assorted coaches, viewing diag rams of where players should position themselves on certain plays, or watching video of how you should perform a play or action. Players and coaches alike will improve their skills with this CD-ROM.

However successful this CD-ROM may be in teaching aspiring young ballplayers about the fundamentals of the game, it obviously can't substitute for playing the game, especially when it comes to teaching about sportsmanship. Many sections of the CD-ROM provide lessons on how to apply honesty and sportsmanship to baseball, and how that will carry forward to real life. However, a young boy or girl is not going to learn about honesty and sportsmanship by sitting in front of a computer alone. One of the best places to learn these qualities is on the baseball field.

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Product Information

Know Your Baseball...................$35

Axia Multimedia Corp.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Phone:    (403) 258-5870
Fax:      (403) 258-5871

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Before You Go to the Ballgame, Bone Up

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Know Your Baseball provides an excellent guide to baseball.