Patent ID: 6041266
Filing Date: 2000-03-21
Classification: A63B,G06F

Abstract:
An electronic baseball scorekeeper, for keeping the score of a real baseball game played by real players on a field, comprising:a plurality of field position manually operable elements each of which elements is dedicated to a given field position,a plurality of event manually operable elements each of which elements is dedicated to a single type of game event;a plurality of manually operable alphabet elements for entry of a list of player names by operating different ones of said alphabet elements for the different letters of the alphabet, respectively, that are entered;storage means for storing said list of player names, events and statistics;display means for display of events, said list of player names and statistics,processor means, including said storage means, and having a first mode for accepting said list of player names from said alphabet elements, a second mode for providing said list to said display, a third mode for entering data from said field position elements and said event elements into said processor means, a fourth mode for calculating statistics including the score and a fifth mode for providing statistical information to said display,said processor means advancing from player to player on said list as necessary to cause at least a part of said event data and at least a part of said field position data to be provided to said processor means as related to the proper player on said list.