https://www.reddit.com/r/BaseballScorecards/comments/1jk4gt4/updated_11x17_custom_card_final_test_before_the/

https://livebaseballscorecards.com/abbreviations.html

https://livebaseballscorecards.com/

https://www.mlb.com/glossary

https://www.mlb.com/official-information/scoring-changes

Bob Carpenter talks about preparing his scorebook by [[masn Nationals]]

Baseball Scoresheets for Typewriters by [[Louis Spirito]]

https://www.reddit.com/r/BaseballScorecards/comments/1jtov15/looking_for_games_to_score/

• https://www.youtube.com/@classicmlb1952
• https://www.youtube.com/@mlbvault
• Roku has a zone MLB.Zone (you may have to download the app). Lots of games, including some All-Star games. Lots of WS games too.
• Apple TVs MLB channel has a “great games” section with a whole lot of games

https://chalkandclay.com/free-printable-baseball-scorecards/

WW - Wasn't Watching

anecdotal via https://www.reddit.com/r/BaseballScorecards/comments/1jq7jol/score_like_uecker_wc_who_cares/

WC - "Who Cares"

"Hey, get up, get up! Get outta here! Gone!”

https://swingleydev.com/baseball/scorecards.php

these look pretty solid and have some alternate options

Also CC - ShareALike License

https://thirty81press.com/blogs/news/thirty81-project-scorecards-home

The majority of American machines (Royal, Remington, Smith-Corona) are 6 lines per inch and either 10 characters per inch (pica) or 12 CPI (elite). My guess would be that you'll see about 90% of people's machines covered across these specs with a roughly 60/40 split for pica vs. elite when it comes to planning print runs.

Most European machines are like the Olympias and are labeled as 2.3 m/m which when multiplied out (25.4mm/inch x 1 character/2.3mm) gives 11.043 CPI. Generally they're also 6 lines per inch. In the US, most of the common (and still popular) imported typewriters are going to be the Olympia SM2, SM3, SM4, SM7, and SM9s and the three incarnations of the Hermes 3000.

I've got a small collection of 50 mostly American machines across six decades with a few less common typefaces including Vogue, Gothic, and Congress Elite if you need some machines for nearby testing (I'm in Altadena, though temporarily still displaced). Most of my available machines are listed at https://typewriterdatabase.com/typewriters.php?hunter_search=7248

There are definitely some smaller 16, 18, 20, and even 24 CPI machines, but they tend to have come on the larger Olympia standards which weigh in at 30-40 pounds and are unlikely to be lugged to ballparks the way that smaller portables and ultraportables might be. There are some larger format 6 CPI machines, but they tend to be much rarer and are more often found on 1970s Smith-Coronas. If you want to go crazy, I'd guess you're aware of Ted Munk's collection of typefaces and catalogs that can be found at: https://typecast.munk.org/category/typewriter-typestylesfonts/

Incidentally, for fun, Bill Madden's book Yankees, Typewriters, Scandals, and Cooperstown: A Baseball Memoir is set for release tomorrow.

Since you sound like a local Dodgers fan, I'd love to invite you to the upcoming SoCal Type-in I'm planning for Saturday, May 10th at Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena: https://boffosocko.com/2025/03/25/youre-invited-to-a-southern-california-type-in/ I hope you'll have some final versions available by then. 😍

reply posted 2025-04-01 at https://old.reddit.com/r/BaseballScorecards/comments/1jn2475/yes_tom_hanks_does_schlep_a_typewriter_to_ball/

If you're curious about some of the technical details and how the are affected by the distribution of typefaces and sizes, I laid out some of them the other day: https://www.reddit.com/r/BaseballScorecards/comments/1jn2475/comment/mks9rbc/

Lou also has some great examples of scorekeeping across display sizes and level of data in his offerings at https://thirty81press.com/.

The broader issue for most scorers is the limitation to 8.5 x 11" paper which is the most common page size for the ubiquitous portable and ultraportable typewriters from the mid-century. While there are some portables with carriages and platens that might accomodate up to 12" wide paper, they're not super common.

To get machines with wider platens to get 11x14 or 11x17, you're going to need the significantly larger standard machines and unless you're rich enough to have a suite that you can securely store one in or a journalist with your own booth, not many baseball fans are going to cart a 35-45+ pound typewriter with them to all their games. Though this wouldn't prevent the fan viewing at home from scoring this way easily. My example above was done on a standard width carriage on a standard machine, but I did have several options to do it on a 12", 14", and even two 16" standard typewriters. Interestingly, most of my larger carriage machines are elite 12/6 (12CPI with 6 lines/inch) formats, and I don't think Lou has designed yet for that standard which would allow for an additional 15 characters to be distributed amidst the columns (while still keeping a minimum of 1/2" margins for some balanced white space). I'll be tinkering around with some of this myself in the coming week or so on 11x14" paper using a 15" wide platen on an elite machine to see how things might look.

Perhaps a modified format at 8.5 x 11 that alternates the teams and splits a 12 inning game format across three sheets so that the typist can type down a single page without swapping sheets every half inning and realigning their page every time? But this would cause a lot of formating change versus traditional layouts to do so.

I've also been tinkering with using small space characters like the - and the _ to indicate data (with or without the use of the variable line spacing mechanism) for things like tracking RBIs. The underline is particularly useful for this in Lou's three space layout.

https://www.baseball-almanac.com/score2b.shtml

https://www.thirdring.net/software_scorecard.htm

Found via: https://www.reddit.com/r/BaseballScorecards/comments/1bya905/i_found_this_cool_little_program_that_creates/

https://eephusleague.com/product/the-halfliner/

Simple and straightforward. Not bad, but not my favorite either.

https://bcscorebook.com/

Like the quantity, but the layout and format doesn't do much for me.

Andres Wirkmaa Baseball scorebook<br /> https://www.wirkmaa.com/wirkmaa_s_baseball_softball_scorebook_45944.htm

7-2 Double Play<br /> https://www.72doubleplay.com/

https://www.reddit.com/user/lou_spirito/

Lives in OC near Angels Stadium

Numbers Game Scorebooks<br /> https://www.numbersgame.co/

BaseballNotation.com<br /> Free baseball scorecard app

found via https://www.reddit.com/r/BaseballScorecards/comments/1jjb6mj/new_york_yankees_at_new_york_mets_32425/ and created by u/machinedlens

https://www.reddit.com/r/BaseballScorecards/comments/1jej2zl/baseball_scorecard_for_typewriters_lad_chc_3182025/

https://thirty81press.com/

This section is vital for assessing the capabilities of the remember or the system and knowing what your tools can do.

I think this fits with Ray Dalios definition of baseball card management.

@ian this is crazy, check it out.

Are self-help books with sentences that highlight the fact that one is already practicing the described/prescribed method really necessary?

Perhaps speaking about the process and making the steps discrete to assist people in actually "touching all the bases" will help them score their homeruns.

For a long time, Austen's use of the word baseball in Northanger Abbey was cited as its first appearance in the English language. But as this episode from the podcast The Thing About Austen explains, this was a mistake. Co-hosts Zan Cammack (she/her) and Diane Neu (she/her) address past speculation regarding Austen's role in the invention of this word, while providing illuminating historical context about Regency sports (Did Austen's contemporaries play baseball?), gender (Was it socially acceptable for women to play cricket and baseball?), and the supposed "all-American" game (If it was common in Britain, when did baseball makes its way into American national identity?).!

I love that Dave has started a list of these useful social justice metaphors.

I got side tracked by the idea this morning and submitted a handful I could think of off the top of my head.

• Baseball fence
• Parable of the Polygons
• Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

I'm curious if there are any useful ones in the neurodiversity space? I feel like I need more of these myself.

This is now the third article I've seen about DiAngelo's story of Jackie Robinson. People are definitely taking her to task on the subject, but I do notice all of them are men, so I wonder is it possible within the context of what she's writing about if she is possibly not a baseball person and therefore doesn't know what the rest of us baseball people do know? Perhaps her points are as bad as they're being made out, but I have to wonder if there's some underlying misogyny here.

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I liked how his six word memoir is totally unlaced with his bio. I hope he can make his dream come true.

In this paragraph they are talking about how a kid in your first rec-league soccer or in little league baseball. Now come to think of that kids as a professional or atleast premier league. This paragraph relates to me because I have friend that started playing soccer with but they are now In a camp which I hopefully will be going to.

In this paragraph they are talking about that you that have to be that skillful to play baseball. So this relates to me because I was playing junior league, I was not that athletic so I quit it even though I didn't know you don't have to be athletic so much.

As a longtime Mets fan, I am really worried. I know last year they took dive in May and came back in the end, but this year the Phillies--and maybe even the Marlins--will be in the mix, too. Time to get serious in Queens.

This story is bullshit!!! ICallBS