To this day I often keep score when going to a Chicago Cub game. I also take my turn keeping score for my Roy Hobbs Baseball Association team (48 year olds and older league) in the Chicago area.
Here’s a funny story from my first time keeping score. My family of origin went to Cub games since way before I was born in 1960. I started keeping score in 1968 at the age of 7 while at a SCHEDULED Sunday double-header. Yes, they actually had many Sunday double-headers back then. Anyways, I was eating a hot dog with mustard on it while keeping score and as I was taking a bite of the hot dog I bit the tip off the pencil. Needless to say I was spitting out hot dog, bun, pencil wood and lead. It turns out that was the last time I had mustard until I started dating my wife 15 years later. Every time I had mustard it tasted like lead, so I hated it. Not sure why I started eating mustard again - must have been true love.
Not that interesting, but that’s my scorekeeping story....
I guess your wife cut the mustard with you. So, how did you keep score after you bit the pencil? What kind of pencil tastes best? Dixon Ticonderoga #2? b(kind of like a wine?) Did the Cubs ever go on to be in the World Series in 1969? Did you get to meet Ernie Banks? Inquiring minds want to know.