It’s happening! I’ve just kicked off a kickstarter campaign to try and fund the larger scorebook design that’s been in the works for 2 years now. It’s a half season, double-O wire bound scorebook that has a larger scorekeeping grid and has more goodies like additional substitution slots, pitching lines and stat columns.

– It scores 12 innings
– There are 2 substitution lines per lineup slot
– There are 7 pitching lines
– Due to popular request, the boxscore is also now in this design!
– And it has the things that made the first scorebook unique, like places to note where you sat and who were the MVPs of the game.

The HalfLiner scorebook has a chipboard back, giving it a nice,...

I wanted to make sure everyone saw this lovely letterpress print by Jeremy Reiss. It’s a continuation of his Diamond Dictionary series, and this one focuses on pitching lingo. I’m particularly fond of the Backdoor illustration.

See more photos and get your own here!

Jack Roosevelt “Jackie” Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was the first African American to play Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947. As the first major league team to play a black man since the 1880s, the Dodgers ended racial segregation that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues for six decades.^[2] The example of Robinson’s character and unquestionable talent challenged the traditional basis of segregation, which then marked many other aspects of American life, and contributed significantly to the Civil Rights Movement^.

WWoooooooo! So, I’ve finally got the dummy of the scorebook in hand, so I can make sure everything is legible and see how the scale of everything on the scoresheet holds up. I’ve got some comparison photos between the new scorebook and the original smaller scorebook so you can see the difference in size and scale. The new scorebook is basically the size of a large moleskine notebook and the wire binding is a little less than a half an inch thick. Everything is larger on the grid now, except for the first columns for the lineup. I sacrificed a bit of space there in order to give three substitution lines per position (plus the three extra at the bottom).

For Those of You Scoring at Home

An interesting graphic on color usage by MLB teams.

This is a piece of artwork that I created of my favorite player on and off the field, Roberto Clemente. Clemente was the NL MVP in 1966, 2X World Series Champion and his #21 has been retired by the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Clemente died in a plane crash while attempting to delivery much needed supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua on December 31, 1972.

Thank you for viewing my artwork.

-Brent Naughton Sports Artist

Ok guys, I’m hoping to start a kickstarter to fund the creation of a new, larger scorebook! *confetti* I got a dummy made to I could check on size, shipping costs, etc, and the pictures are below. It’s going to be a half season scorebook-81 games, wire O bound and about iPad size in terms of width and height. 12 innings, more data columns… the idea is that this is for hard-core scorekeepers who need a little more than the pocket scorebook can provide.

Instead of trying to rush things for opening day, I think it’s better to shoot for a mid-season release, or to even wait till winter. There are some mistakes I made with the first scorebook’s kickstarter that I don’t wish to repeat, and trying to rush orders out...