Gallery: These Delightful Designer Notepads Revive Old-Timey Baseball Score-Keeping
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The *HalfLiner Scorebook* combines the hipster cred of Field Notes and Muji notebooks with the OCD-friendly pastime of scoring baseball games.
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Bethany Heck created a template that makes score keeping easy, but also gives scorers the flexibility to add their own creative twists to the process.
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For those in the know, a few simple marks can capture dramatic events. These four markings capture the horror Boston Red Sox fans endured when Bill Buckner missed the easy out in the 1986 World Series.
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The HalfLiner Scorebook originated out of Heck's senior thesis at Auburn University where she created a brand identity for a wide variety of baseball related products.
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This Kickstarter project is actually Heck's second attempt. Her first booklet, pictured here, raised $27,002 in March of 2011. To date, she has sold over 3,000 copies of the original in her attempt to rekindle fan's passion for scorekeeping in the stands.
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The new version of the HalfLiner Scorebook was informed by lessons learned during the first Kickstarter campaign. Complicated die cuts, kiss cuts, and bindings were replaced with a sturdy and stylish cover, along with a simple coil binding.
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