What chique said…bayonet1976, I didn’t know about this program either. I don’t WANT a handheld and mrs. snac has been after me to get one for a couple of years now, at least. Now I may be forced to get one.
Yes…I keep score. Always. Always have, since I was a tad. Still have the scorecards from every damn one of those games, too, major and minor league, that’s how obsessive I am, except for 5. [Three White Sox games when they weren’t selling 'em for some reason, and 2 games–one Cubs, one Sox–from before I was old enough to pay attention to scoring a whole game.] All the rest of 'em–150±-are on the shelves of my study.
I will once in a while, but I usually get bored. If I get started then I make sure I keep score until both teams have had a runner on base and/or a hit. That way I have the scorecard if something “important” happens. Though I suppose this system will fail in the event of a multi-HR game or a triple play (like I saw, but didn’t buy a scorecard that game).
I only do at baseball games I am covering for the newspaper. But it’s the best sport to take notes for.
You know what the problem with scorekeeping is? The cards they sell at the games always tell you the most complicated way to do it. There are many simple methods. For mine, in the empty box I simply put how the out was made (like 6-3 for a groundout or 7 fly for a fly ball), or if they reach base, draw a line to the base they achieved and write at the bottom how they got there. So if a guy singles, I put 1B and draw a line to first. Then if the next batter doubles, he gets 2b and a line to second, and I draw a line on the guy on first to third, and write “2B” over third base because that’s how he got there.
It may sound long, but I’ve found it much easier than any of the slashes or whatever that the programs always talk about.
Although if you are truly hardcore, try keeping the book at Little League games. Nothin’ like trying to sort out a 3-5-E2-4-1.