Baseball Scorecard - the urge to keep score is as old as the game of baseball itself. Here’s the hook. You can recall the whole game inning by inning, batter by batter, just looking at the scorecard. It’s exhilarating. Like some kind of magic, that single piece of paper preserves the game with no significant loss of detail. Baseball Scorecard For traditional baseball fans everywhere, a scorecard is a treasure! Today, we celebrate one of the most fascinating traditions in sports - the baseball scorecard. Scorekeeping has been around for about 150 years. In fact, the first scorecard in Baseball history was auctioned at Swann Galleries in New York in 2011, for about $4,600. Official scorers are hired to keep an official record of each … [Read more...]