Breaking news has moved to Twitter (and so have I for the most part), print paper is dying, so they say, and well, scoring baseball games is headed in that direction as well. Forget the bulky scorebooks… Electronics is where it’s at in this brave new ADHD connected world! And even better if your “scorebook” [...]

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I’m pretty sure I have two freebie Bob Carpenter scorebooks floating around somewhere that I’ve been unable to locate. I’ve decided they’re the right size to fit into the back of my camera bag and I’ll just adapt to the traditional scoring system. Maybe. I may end up printing and binding a homemade book again. [...]

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[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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