Electronic scoreboards have developed considerably since the original intent of the boards, which was simply do list the scores and time of a game in progress. For instance, Fenway has the Green Monster which is a great example of how scoreboards were originally designed. These were simple, sport specific tools for displaying game activity and score, operated by a scorekeeper who popped his head out of portholes to change tags by the inning. In other cases, a ladder was used and a scorekeeper would climb it to change the score each inning manually. Scoreboards maintained a basic rectangle or square shape for most sports, given than the design was the most efficient way for the game information to be displayed in its entirety.
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