[Anthropoid]

I am a retired professor of anthropology, and in graduate school one of my professors (a cultural anthropologist by the name of Bradd Shore) had a great interest in baseball as a iconic symbol of American culture. I played the game very sporadically as a boy and know the basic rules, but I've never been a "fan" per se. However, I've always thought it was an interesting game, and just never felt I had the time to get into it. Well I guess now I do feel I have that time so here I am as a new OOTP player!

Having 'played' for about 10 or 15 hours (well, a good 8 or 10 hours of that was really just floundering around in the UI and with a couple throw away startups to see how it works overall) I think I'm off to a good start.

I've got an Historical League with start in 1902 setup and I'm GM of the Cincinatti Reds. I've done a couple exhibition games, and gone through all of my players several times to get a handle on what resources I have. I feel like I have a decent lineup setup and depth chart too. The date is like Jan 15 so I figure I'll try to play an exhibition game about once every ten days till beginning of March then let them do spring training and then the season!

I'm not finding a manual in the game directory, though I reckon there must be such a thing (or an online wiki perhaps), so my numerous questions [hopefully someone can just point me to a handy resource like a wiki and say 'most all your questions will be addressed in that resource']:

1. I turned my ticket price down a few cents, I think it was at like $0.68 and I've turned it down to $0.63. I see the fans are pretty loyal and interested at Cincinatty so I figured making the games more accessibly might help increase volume?

2. My starting roster seems to be capped at 17 players, and I have about 5 reserve players (all of whom are quite crap). Is that normal?

3. I have two players for each defensive position, and 3 starting rotation pitchers. There are like 5 or 6 relief pitchers.

a. Is it really necessary to have that many relief pitchers?
b. What is the difference between a middle relief, long relief and emergency sp pitcher? I've assigned these roles to my relief pitchers based on my intuition of who fit each role best, but not sure.

4. Referring to the actual in-game play-by-play commands: What is the difference between say: "pitch," "Pitch to contact," "pitch outside," etc.?

5. Also, what is the difference (for batters) between: "Swing at pitch" "Wait for Pitch," etc.?

Lot more than that, but that is enough to get the ball rolling.

ADDIT: so I found the manual and the wiki (thanks to Txranger and The Game for your helpful posts!) so most of my questions will get answered on my own as I progress.

But if anyone feels like offering any comments or suggestions I appreciate it!

Amazing good game, and I can see that it is an exceptional strategy game.