Mr. Scorebook writes a book

Once I became a full-time baseball writer, keeping score became a daily necessity. The difference for me was that even after I ceased becoming a full-time baseball writer I felt some kind of inner need to keep score, whether I was in the press box or in the stands, at a major league or a minor league game or perhaps even a college or Olympics game. Scorecards can, years later, recall individual plays or oddities and historical occurrences, which a rabid fan like me will appreciate.

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I can't tell you how many times over the years I've been sitting in my seat at a ballpark other than Fenway, scorebook in hand, and someone will say, "Are you a scout or something?" Very few people keep score any more, and it's sad. My wife does. Unlike me, Elaine does not add up the totals at the game's conclusion and she never looks at her notations again. But she has her own book and it wouldn't be right for her to be at a game and not keep score. She always checks to see if the caught stealing went 2-4 or 2-6, whether the rundown was 1-6-5-6-5 or 1-6-4-6-5, or if the putout on that shit was 6-3 or 4-3. That's us, Mr. and Mrs. Scorebook.