Appeal No. 97-1277
Application No. 07/820,261
simulated playing field thereon, and display elements are
situated around the simulated field to simulate various
movements which occur in a real baseball game.
The rejection also depends to a great degree on the
knowledge of the avid baseball fan as to how a baseball game
is officially recorded and scored. It should be noted that
avid baseball fans have been manually filling out scorecards
for years to provide a complete record of the events of a
baseball game they are watching. There are many conventional
scoring notations and shortcuts used by these fans to simplify
the manual entry of this data onto the scorecard. The typical
scorecard has an area for the players of each team to be
listed in successive rows while the various innings to be
played are situated in successive columns. Events during the
course of a game are typically recorded on the scorecard at
the intersection of the player who is at bat and the inning
being played.
The main shortcut to scoring a game of baseball is
that each of the defensive positions is assigned a number from
1 to 9. Therefore, when a batter is thrown out at first on a
grounder to third for example, the event is manually recorded
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