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Play by Play: 1924
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 06/05/2010 - 12:39pm.
August 2, 1924. Washington, D.C. "Coleman's scoreboard invention." The scene behind the screen of the Lifelike Baseball Scoreboard. View full size.
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Coleman on the right
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Mon, 06/07/2010 - 9:01am.
From another photographic site: "George S. Coleman with the newest in baseball score boards. It contains 19,000 feet of wire and has 400 stereopticon slides with an electric light bulb for each slide. Five men are required to operate the great board, including the telegraph operator who receives play-by-play from the field. Mr. Coleman is shown on the extreme right."
Was there a special telegraph code?
Submitted by BobE on Sun, 06/06/2010 - 1:58pm.
'....as the plays are received by telegraph from the scene of the game...'
Was there some poor guy sitting on a morse key at the game tapping out some strange cryptic coded version of the play?
Was it like chess-speak? P-Q4 and all that?
Buy a Ticket
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Sun, 06/06/2010 - 12:34pm.
Ten years to build? From this view, what a waste of a life. Plenty of good seats were always available in those days.
Buy a ticket, not to the theater but to see the actual humans. Get some fresh air. It wasn't like this fellow was building these things in every theater in the hinterlands where there was no big league ball.
[Not very likely unless you bought a train ticket as well. This setup was used for the home team's away games. - Dave]
Technology Guys
Submitted by -E-C-Mills on Sun, 06/06/2010 - 10:42am.
Here are some young technology experts. Fore runners to the dot com guys or Geek Squad.
400 Electric Bulbs
Submitted by stanton_square on Sat, 06/05/2010 - 5:15pm.
An article about Mr. Coleman's patented invention appeared in the Nov. 1924 Popular Science.
If he ever saw a Jumbotron
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Sat, 06/05/2010 - 1:18pm.
Mr. C would probably crap his pants.
Coleman's Goldberg
Submitted by JohnHoward on Sat, 06/05/2010 - 12:53pm.
It looks as if Rube Goldberg wa an inspiring force for this invention.
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