Glen Gower’s blog has a great new piece about the Wrigley Field scoreboard (GGower Blog)….which also cites an article on SI.com.

He makes a great point about the nod to tradition and the fact that Bill Veeck was the one who installed the then “forward-thinking” manual scoreboard. He notes that Veeck [...]

It may be hard to see, but its been a busy month at Gameops.com.  In addition to the office move we’ve been busy working on some back-end functions of the site and cleaning up some older pages.

First a couple parts that you can see:  The Act White Pages have been cleaned up, which [...]

From 1964 to 1981, the Sign Man, dressed in a blue shirt and a black derby emblazoned with a Mets logo, responded on cue to much of the drama played out between the white lines.

This weekend The New York Times featured a story on “The Signman”, a fixture at Mets’ games for nearly [...]

I had an interesting conversation with a former minor league hockey executive this week.  In it he outlined three ways to build a team.

Start by selling tickets…the larger crowds will attract sponsors.
Start by selling to sponsors…adding programs around the sponsor, and that added value will attract more fans.
Start with entertainment…make the show the most entertaining [...]

Not that anyone was checking….until now.

The Hagerstown Suns will be celebrating the 100th birthday of the hot dog at their June 8 game. As part of the birthday bash, hot dogs will be a $1 throughout the game, there will be a hot dog eating contest, “Happy Birthday” will be sung to the hot dog, [...]

This from NYTimes/AP on Sunday (6/4), Fans Feeling the Pressure While Sitting in the Stands.

But when Dallas Mavericks games get close, as they often have in this season’s playoffs, Maria Malone throws up into her souvenir cup.

“It’s this total feeling like I don’t know what’s going to happen and [...]