A woman operated the scoreboard clock from a table at halfcourt.
Nia volunteered to operate the scoreboard, while a teammate kept statistics.
The signature frieze at the top of the stadium bowl is back, the manually operated auxiliary scoreboard is replicated, and a gap between the bleachers and right field allows us to get a peek at the No. 4 elevated train.
Although the tasks were less than glamorous — operate the scoreboard, fetch the water, fold the laundry — Smith said it was a fortunate opportunity.
Now with a manually operated scoreboard that doesn't happen.
His connection with Leigh went back, however, to helping to operate the scoreboard at the old Mather Lane ground while still at primary school, and bringing the star player and part-time groundsman, Billy Woods, his pies at lunch-time.
The Cubs' then-owner Philip K. Wrigley ordered the reconstruction of the bleachers and the building of the manually operated scoreboard in 1937.
Then he came back, with Gilbert's and Reyes's support, swallowing his pride and entering the low-level "Challenger" tournaments, where players operate their own scoreboard by flipping numbered plastic cards between games and the winner's check is $3,500.
Their duties include "dressing" the court and operating the scoreboards but this year they have become all too familiar with the process of pulling canvas over grass in the quickest possible time.
We want to see a scoreboard.
