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Attention, Youthlings! Before your Internets and your Extra Innings, it wasn't so easy to get the scores. Wezen-Ball:
... in 1990 it was impossible for someone to know what exactly was happening in a live game if they weren't living in radio- or television-broadcast range of the game, and the world was a worse-place for it. That June, Beckett Baseball Card Monthly senior editor Pepper Hastings finally had enough of this medieval situation and decided to do something about it.
It's a good story, but then all of Wezen-Ball's stories are good stories.
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In the 1920s they had the big giant scoreboards people would crowd around and watch in lieu of watching/listening to the game. I guess following the game devolved at some point after that.
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by BullManUGA on Feb 13, 2012 9:16 PM EST reply actions
This was actually common practice BEFORE 1920...
… before there was any way of watching/listening to the game, since there was no radio then.
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by Al Yellon on Feb 14, 2012 8:36 AM EST up reply actions
In 1990:
I was running a fantasy league in Vancouver, Washington. We paid a couple of guys to do our weekly stats. They had a basement office in a Portland neighborhood, filled with computers and half-empty cups of cold coffee. There were enough leagues like ours that they made a living, at least as well as if they were working at a Plaid Pantry, and loving life. The year before I was compiling our stats by hand. Today’s internet boards make the game ridiculously ease. Stat-O-Magic, what ever happened to you? You were the savior for the Wide Open Baseball League!
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by extavernmouse on Feb 14, 2012 2:31 AM EST reply actions
Did anyone ever successfully call?
I would really like to hear from someone who successfully called and received the current score using one of the phones. Anyone know such a person?
by Mirror on Feb 14, 2012 3:40 PM EST reply actions
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