[Click image for huge view - hit ‘c’ to close] I showed my shiny newly-bound unused custom scorebook to Bob Carpenter prior to the first game at Nationals Park and he seemed mostly disappointed I wasn’t using his. I conceded that his is smaller and fits in my bag better, but for me to match […]

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With the new season about to start, I guess I should figure out what to do about my scorebook this season. I had enough pages of my custom system left for spring training, but that supply is now drained. It’s also not a perfect system since it requires turning pages after about the fifth or […]

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Custom baseball scorebooks are all the rage and I’m catching the wave and riding it as well! There are TV announcer Bob Carpenter’s books (Nats-specific one soon to be available in the Nats store at RFK) and CapPun’s homemade Kinkos book. After trying nearly every scoresheet style (my favorite) and scoring software on the planet […]

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In order to start scoring baseball, the first thing I had to do was memorize field position numbers. I drew a rough sketch on a piece of paper and kept it next to me the first several times I scored because I could never remember if right field was 9 or 7. So study this […]

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Ok, while I have time to kill before tonight’s LATE game, I figured it’s the perfect opportunity to display my scoring system. It’s not perfect, and it’s probably not ideal for anyone but me. I do know how to score on a scoresheet and if I’d found the time and inclination to go have my […]

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