Mobile scorekeeping applications are challenging the traditional scorebooks that have long been used by local baseball coaches to log games, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. "There's no ...
Well, here’s what you’re up against when you set out to explain baseball scorekeeping to someone who’s never done it before: “K” stands for “struck.” How’s that for the first lesson? Strikeouts are ...
It’s baseball season! If you go to a Milwaukee Brewers game, you’ll find a whole range of fans — from the tailgaters to the racing sausage enthusiasts. But you might also see some with a pen and paper ...
One of the things I enjoy about watching and covering baseball is the opportunity to score a game. No other sport can intertwine focusing on the action on the field and chronicling it on a piece of ...
There are two kinds of people who attend baseball games—those of use who dutifully record each and every play on our scorecard, and philistines. You can probably guess which side of the divide I fall ...
The young announcer cutting his teeth in professional baseball. The veteran who does it as his job every night at the ballpark. The fan who does it simply to have something else to do. Meet three of ...
The baseball season has reached its midway point, so it's time once again for one of the history-minded sport's traditional rites of passage. Not the All-Star Game, which celebrates its 80th ...
It’s spring training for everyone. Over the last few weeks, MLB players, managers and umpires alike have begun adjusting to a new rulebook, figuring out how to handle changes like a pitch clock and ...
Baseball is a time-honored American tradition, and the practice of keeping score in a program or book still has advantages in the modern world that fans of every age can appreciate. NBC’s Harry Smith ...
Back in the spring, I devoted more words than anyone ever needed or wanted to read on the subject of baseball scorekeeping apps for the iPhone. That round-up included iScore Baseball Scorekeeper, a ...