***Anecdotal Story Alert***My nine year old had a game on Saturday. One of the Dad's volunteered to keep the book. He writes down our lineup correctly so I figure he's good to go. I see him walk over to the other team's dugout to get their lineup. Again, I assume he is good to go. As our first batter is coming to the plate, he walks over and asks me if he is supposed to keep track of each baserunner and how he can tell which team they are on. I am like, "What?". I take a look at the book. He has listed each of our batters in the top line for positions 1-9, then in the area right below that (the area used for substitutions) he has listed each of their players 1-9. I told him he should use two sheets, one for our team and one for the other team. He was befuddled. I get him straightened out, using two sheets. At the end of the inning he comes back to me and asked me how many runs were scored. I asked him how many boxes he had filled in. Again I get a blank stare. I look at his handiwork. If a player got a hit he wrote down 'hit' instead of drawing the line from home to first. If they made an out he wrote down "out".I give him a basic scoring primer. Next inning he comes back, now he is properly marking hits down by drawing lines on the corresponding diamond in the book. However, he is not recording outs. Picture this, the first hitter draws a walk and he marks down a line from home to first in the first diamond. The second players makes an out, he marks down nothing. The third player gets a hit so he marks down a line from home to first in the second players diamond but at least he was bright enough to mark the first diamond going from 1st to 2nd. By the end of the inning we have no idea where we are at in the batting order according to his book.I think he might be put in charge of treats.
Then again I didn't have a gameboy or ADD like 93 percent of kids at the park these days.
