As most of you know I’m into sports.  I’m on several softball teams, I’ve played hockey, baseball, football, and coached or managed several of these teams as well.  My fall league softball team is the first softball team I’ve managed.  With that being said, me and my geekness decide to make a team website and a use my iPhone to keep the book.  Now I know there’s a lot of you that read this from overseas and baseball/softball isn’t your sport, but I must say, if you run a team and have a smartphone, check the apps available to you, it could make for a more involved and enjoyable time for all that’s involved.

I downloaded Faster Than Monkey’s iScore Baseball Scorekeeper (iTunes) for like $5 and it’s great.  Anyone can keep the book now, although we have a fantastic scorekeeper that does it for us each and every night, cold or hot.  Thank you so much Jill!  It will keep the stats for each player throughout the season, career stats as well.  During the game it’ll show you where the person last hit the ball if you so incline.  It’s one of those life savers that you come across during your lifetime that you say “It was totally worth the money!”  Once the game is over, I then email myself the boxscore and stats for that game and BAM! put them up on our website and everyone on the team can rip each other and compete with each other to hopefully drive each other to do better.

Now we really haven’t shown much this season, but it is the first time we’ve all played together and with the fall season coming to a close, we are looking forward to playing next spring.  But with that being said, the umpires have commented on the fact that we are “just using your phone to keep score?!” or “how does that work?”  Well as managers and coaches get younger and younger, we’ll find a way to advance the ways we do sports.  Even if it’s just your average beer league softball.