The Philadelphia Eagles use a solar-powered scoreboard at Lincoln Financial Field, and get nearly a quarter of their energy from renewable sources.
A team employee, sitting in the center-field scoreboard, would use a portable telescope to spy on the opposing catcher's fingers, decipher the code he was using with his pitcher to call pitches, and signal the next pitch to the batter by putting up a white or dark card in an opening in the scoreboard where the hitters knew to look.
The 100-foot water tower, a landmark of the Kaiser property, was preserved in the center of the track to be used as a scoreboard.
But she will use an old-fashioned manual scoreboard, the kind once found at sporting events, in deliberate contrast to the deluge of electronic trading data.
Granted, there isn't any other arena that has a company named after it, but Madison Square Garden has maintained much of its dignity (maybe too much; that scoreboard could use an update) against the wave of sponsorship deals and naming rights—an imperfect thumbing of a nose to Black Friday.
Spofforth used a picture of the Olympic scoreboard in Beijing - where she finished 0.04 seconds off 100m backstroke bronze - as her computer screensaver for motivation.
Presumably awaiting supertitles in the second concert, on Sunday, when the orchestra was to present the New York premiere of Elliott Carter's opera, "What's Next?," along with Falla's "Three-Cornered Hat," it set a listener to fantasizing about the possibility of using it as a scoreboard to liven up concerts with a tally of orchestral runs, hits and errors.
Years ago, the Detroit Tigers used a spotter tucked away in the scoreboard to read the catcher's signs, which were relayed to the hitter by moving the eyes of a large Indian head mounted on an advertisement.
The mix-up created a conflict: the reception had the right to use the scoreboard that is needed for the boxing matches.
Did you have any desire to use the scoreboard at Soccer City, Soweto's brand-new stadium for 94,700 spectators?That would have been a treat.
