Clipping:An improved electric scoreboard

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Date Tuesday, May 29, 1888
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A new feature was introduced on the Boston grounds on Friday in the shape of a base-ball register. A board partition was erected on the center-field fence, a little to one side of the flag pole. By means of electric wires which run from the board along the fence to a position in the pavilion, an operator, sitting in the latter, by touching a knob, registered on the board the decisions of the umpire as to balls and strikes, giving the number of each, and also whether a batter or runner was out, or when the ball hit was a foul. This will prove an advantage to those people who, in case of unusual noise, cannot hear the umpire’s decisions. St.

Source St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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