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Possibly The First Use Of The Scoreboard
Some People say that the first use of a scorebaord was on Thanksgiving in 1893 for football game. -
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The Scoraboard's Timesapn
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Published In The New York Times
The First pulbic mention of the Scoreboard was in the New York Times in 1894 for the 12-0 win for Penn State over Prenceton. -
Possibly The First Use Of The Scoreboard
Other people say the scoreboard made it's first apperance at the Franklin Feild in 1895. In any case all these timelines were manually used with someone climbing up a ladder and writing it in with chalk or changing the number. -
Early 1990's
George A. Baird created the first electronic scorebaord with baseball. In kept track of how many strikes, balls, runs, and what the score was. This leading to others changing thier manul operated scoreboard to hold other information than just the score. -
The Life-Like Scoreboard
The Coleman Life-Like debuted at National Theater in Washington D.C where people could come and watch the scoreboard and game at the theater, -
The Dial Scoreboard
All throughout the 1920's and the 1930's they had a manually usedscorebaord where someone stood behind it a moved dials to udjust the scores. -
1965
In 1965 the Houston Astros had the largest scoreboard with the toatal of 474 feet. -
Upgrading the Scoreboard
In 2002 the Yankee Stadium updated their scoreboard by having it consist of full color, LED large scale video replay with the size of it being 25 feet by 33 feet. -
Indoor Scoreboards
By this time Indoor scoreboards usually hung from the ceiling in the center in a 360 shape with a screen on each side. -
Scoreboards today
Scoreboards today are very technical and can e controlled by a push of a button from someone sitting away from the scoreboard in another room. -
Scoreboards today
Scoreboards today have imporved so much by making it more tecnological and more efficent but that also made the prices go up. Scoreboards today cost anywhere from $9,00-5oo,ooo.
