Keeping Score: Manual Scoreboard At Birmingham’s Rickwood Classic Keeps It Old School
By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.
When teams score 13 runs in a baseball game, you might say they are lighting up the scoreboard.
Unless you’re talking about Wednesday’s 23rd annual Rickwood Classic game, in which the Montgomery Biscuits beat the Birmingham Barons 9-4.
The high-scoring contest didn’t light up the scoreboard at Rickwood Field because the scoring on the board beyond the outfield fence isn’t kept by electrically powered light bulbs. The old-time manual scoreboard is one of the unusual features of the ballpark that drew 7,015 to the 12:30 p.m. contest.
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