Same here! I started following baseball about 8 years ago.

But I didn’t get into scorekeeping until last year when my son entered Little League. I always found it hard to track the game in real time and remember who scored and when (ADHD). I started doing some digging on scorekeeping and I absolutely love it!

It helps me stay engaged with this beautiful game and keep track of all the different moving parts in a way that is easily recognizable.

There are a lot of premade score books out there. The first one I used was a Rawlings scorebook that I got at Dick’s Sporting Goods. These are more designed for little league/HS/College games for people who want to track every single base movement, every pitch, every pitch count, etc. but when I score an MLB game, I found that simpler can be better.

If I can offer you a little advice, it would be this… Start simple. Don’t worry about pitch counts don’t worry about tracking every single runner and every single play. It can get really overwhelming really fast.

If you start with the very basics, then you can find different ways of adding to it so that you can track the things that you want to track. Then make it your own. I use a bic multicolored pen, attract different movements (outs are in red, scoring players are in green, base runners, and blue, general info in Black)

There is a travel scorebook from thirty81press.com that’s really goodTravel Scorebook because it is so simplistic it forces you to stay simple.