Cool scoreboard article on Mental Floss

A cool pictorial of some classic scoreboards…not what you’d expect.

Scoreboards have come a long way since the turn of the 20th century, when operators climbed ladders to update boards with chalk or hang a different number to indicate the start of a new inning or quarter. Manually operated boards slowly gave way to more efficient electric boards, which eventually incorporated video and grew bigger and brighter by the year. Here’s a look at how scoreboards have evolved over the past 100+ years.

via mental_floss Blog » 100 Years of Scoreboard Watching.

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