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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Maury Brown is a national MLB, motorsports, and media reporter Baseballism, the baseball lifestyle company, has moved into the ...

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 ...

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 statistical revolution in baseball has changed the way the sport is played. Now, if graphic designer Bethany Heck has her way, it will revive the art of spectator score keeping as well. The ...

Know what I like? When a home run lands in the stands, and the fans there quiver like winter wheat, just as wiggly spectators did back in Babe Ruth’s day. Know what else I like? The way the vendor ...

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 ...

Detroit — It'll happen to Ed Keelean nearly every game, as Keelean goes about watching his beloved Detroit Tigers on a beautiful summer day or evening at Comerica Park, jotting his baseball ...