Clipping:An electric scoreboard
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| Date | Saturday, November 22, 1890 |
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| Text | The new system of reporting base ball and other games by means of an ingenious electrical apparatus will most probably be introduced next season, says Electric Power. The special object of the apparatus is to enable a full report of games so be made in sight of a large number of people, and at the same time to dispense with one or more of the assistants now required in reporting such games. This device is intended not only to indicate the progress of distant games, but actually to be used at the opposite end of the ball field from the grand stand, in order to enlighten the spectators on many points on which they are liable to be momentarily in doubt. Spectators coming in late are often unable to ascertain the number of innings played, the striker at the bat, the number of balls and strikes called, etc., and even those already on the ground sometimes find it difficult to determine whether the umpire has called a strike or a ball. All these weighty issues upon which the base ball enthusiast expends such intense solicitude can now be clearly and reliably recorded, and all anxiety can be removed by a glance at the exhibition board placed in sight of the whole concourse of spectators, the indicators on which are electrically controlled and operated by an experienced person located close to the diamond. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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