A Grandmother’s Score-Keeping Notebooks

A lovely story about a Cincinnati Reds fan who kept track of box scores for 20 years.

Grandma Olges lived alone but she didn’t live lonely.

The sounds of play-by-play duo Marty and Joe echoed through the house, keeping her company while her writing in notebooks kept her busy.

Every night and every game for 20 seasons she kept handwritten scores.

Using a blue pen and her own system of keeping score grandma Olges started using anything she could find.

She used basketball scorecards, half sheets of paper, a trapper keeper, and full notebooks for entire seasons of Reds’ baseball.

At points, she even made a notebook using a telephone cord.

But what she never used is a ready-made baseball scorebook.

For 20 years, this fan filled 20 notebooks with more than 3,000 box scores.

Her grandson keeps her memory alive today, sharing various shots of the interior pages on Twitter at Grandma’s Reds Scorebook .

Read more: Love letter to baseball: Reds fan keeps 20 seasons worth of scorebooks

One thought on “A Grandmother’s Score-Keeping Notebooks”

  1. This is awesome. As both a rabid Cincinnati Reds fan and someone that loves to score games, this is very cool.

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