Well, here’s what you’re up against when you set out to explain baseball scorekeeping to someone who’s never done it before: “K” stands for “struck.” How’s that for the first lesson? Strikeouts are ...

Baseball is a time-honored American tradition, and the practice of keeping score in a program or book still has advantages in the modern world that fans of every age can appreciate. NBC’s Harry Smith ...

Mobile scorekeeping applications are challenging the traditional scorebooks that have long been used by local baseball coaches to log games, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. "There's no ...

Scorekeeping is a ballpark tradition that seems to be going, going and may soon be gone, at least among fans. For a sport obsessed with statistics, there's no data that counts how many people still ...

The scribes of the language of baseball will need to add a few more characters as MLB undergoes rule changes. It’s spring training for everyone. Over the last few weeks, MLB players, managers and ...

Detroit — It'll happen to Ed Keelean nearly every game, as Keelean goes about watching his beloved Detroit Tigers on a beautiful summer day or evening at Comerica Park, jotting his baseball ...

Oakland's Coco Crisp tracked Robinson Cano's drive to right-center. He seemed ready to make the catch - until he got caught between deciding whether to jump or stay on his feet and the ball bounced ...

One of baseball’s supposed greatest joys is the chance to see on any given night something that has never happened before. But I’ve always preferred a cousin of this idea—related, but different, a ...

Kyle Traynor is a doctor of obstetrics who often delivers babies at the famed Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He also is an official scorer at Minnesota Twins games. Yes, delivering babies and ...