Keeping the Scorecard: A Lost Art?
As I sat watching the A’s lose to the Mariners in Peoria, Ariz., on Monday afternoon, I began to wonder if many people still keep a card at the game. I do whenever I can, but I’ve noticed that mostly middle-aged and older folk seem to keep one throughout the game.
Is it becoming a lost art? Is the new generation of fans not interested in keeping the play-by-play themselves, ready for easy reference on their laps? For me, the game is much more interesting when I know that the batter flew out to the left side the last two times up, or if the pitcher has recorded his last four outs by ground ball.
Does anyone else keep a card, or is this really disappearing from the game?
March 13th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
I suspect that the owners are at least partly to blame. If the rest of the league is like Yankee Stadium, you get the scorecard by buying an overpriced program. Would it kill MLB to provide these things free with the purchase of a ticket?
March 15th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
I take digital photos instead, which I figure is the modern day equivalent, since somebody will post the official version online somewhere anyway.
March 24th, 2007 at 3:11 am
Years ago at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto I used to see it all the time, and I’d keep score once in a while too. Once the Skydome opened it became a rarity to see it. When they started turning ballparks into malls it took away from that aspect a bit.