AP Offers World Series Style Guide

Major League Baseball’s regular season ends this week and the Associated Press Stylebook team figures it would be timely and helpful to reiterate for subscribers AP style on essential baseball terms.

"The World Series Style Guide is a brief lexicon of key baseball terms as spelled and defined by The Associated Press,” said Deputy Standards Editor Dave Minthorn, a member of the AP Stylebook team. “We hope subscribers will find this guide useful as the Major League Baseball season reaches a high point in the playoffs and the World Series. The guide also includes some trite and confusing terms that AP writers try to avoid in baseball stories.”

Minthorn added: “For the guide's content and explanations, we're indebted to AP Baseball Writer Ben Walker in New York, an acknowledged expert in all things about the game."