Coworker of mine is using iScore to keep book for his son's Senior League (Little League) team. It's really a cool product. Not only does it keep stats automatically for multiple teams over multiple seasons (as opposed to summations by hand from a book at the end of the season), but I was able to view the streaming boxscore of a game in near real time, via just a simple flash app.

I hope to use iScore next year to keep book for our men's softball team. Good news is I finally found a worthwhile use of an iPad.

Still, because of how new the products are and how stodgy purists can be, the market is fairly small.

A Venn diagram shows surprising overlap between "fuddy-duddy baseball purists" and "baseball fans who enjoy easy-to-use cutting-edge technology."

I've used iScore and it's pretty good. It just does not hold up to paper and pen for me though. This is one of those tasks that, at least doing it for fun, I can't imagine doing any other way.

Next year I'm coaching a traveling little league team though and I can see the ability to quickly generate stats be pretty useful.

The app seems terrific for scoring non-MLB games. To take it to a big league ballpark - I don't really see the point.

I had this idea like 10 years ago. Never did anything with it, but I deserve a share.

It’s simple enough for moms

lucky for bbc then. :-)

Can anyone recommend a scorebook? I currently use one from Dick's/Sports Authority/wherever and it's OK but it's a little too large; my arms ends up bumping into the person I'm sitting next to a lot of the time. Eric Enders used to make them and they were great but unfortunately he's stopped producing them.

I'm still using a clipboard and scoresheets from the old Pursue the Pennant dice baseball game.

http://www.scoremasterco.com/

Scoremaster is easy, or you can make your own on Excel.

I've been using the Project Scoresheet scorecards from Alex Reisner's site for the past few years and really like them. He also has traditional scorecards and one for a system of his own devising. The documentation for the Project Scoresheet system is a fun read.

I like Project Scoresheet's printed on legal paper. More space for notes.

My IPhone's battery would never support this.

My IPhone's battery would never support this.

Yeah, reality check. Maybe if the app operated in Airplane Mode? But they're also selling: The apps also create live game streams so parents can follow Little League teams like they're the Yankees and Mets. I don't think so, Tim.

Scoring a game on an iPad does have its drawbacks, of course. Rain isn't ideal—Joe Petriello, a Little League coach in Commack who ditched his paperback for iScore, covers his iPad with a Ziploc freezer bag when it drizzles

Huh...I'll have to test that. One of my biggest disappointments (I'm Canadian, eight+ months of winter) was that the iPhone does not work with gloves.

I've been using the Project Scoresheet scorecards from Alex Reisner's site for the past few years and really like them.

Same here.