A consumer’s guide to the best and worst of sports media and merchandise. Ground rules: If it can be read, played, heard, observed, worn, viewed, dialed or downloaded, it’s in play here.

What: “Men Are From Locker Rooms, Women Are From Luxury Boxes”

Author: Laurie Selwitz

Publisher: ZuMedia ($11.95)

If you know the finer points of sports, you could pick out any number of mistakes in this book. In the baseball section alone, the description of the infield fly rule is incorrect, the explanation of a pitcher receiving no decision is wrong and one guess about why major leaguers do not use aluminum bats is laughably inaccurate.

But, if you knew the finer points of sports, you wouldn’t be reading this book. Selwitz, a program administrator for Fox Sports Net, aims to explain the basics of baseball, football, basketball and hockey to women who are confused, bored or alienated by televised sports and the men who watch them.

Selwitz even offers a list of reasons for women to watch sports, including “The ability to talk to any guy--any time, any place,” “The pleasure that comes from yelling, ‘Hey, hon, get me another beer, would ya?’ ” and “All those gorgeous hunks in tight uniforms.’ ”

Similar PG-13 references echo through the book, including the explanation that football players lining up at tight end and split end do not mean “that one end has a great butt and the other has bad hair” and that tripping, in hockey, does not mean “what you really want to do to an ex-boyfriend’s bimbo du jour.”

Selwitz connects in a fun, breezy way with her target audience, women who want to share a game with boyfriends or husbands instead of bugging them to explain every play and every player.