Electro-Mech's sales and shipping records show 88 entries across 56 organizations in Mobile, Alabama, shipped between 1999 and 2024 - 45 from the pre-LX catalog and 43 from the LX-series, making Mobile one of the few cities in the state where the pre-LX era still holds a narrow lead. Baseball accounts for 30 of those entries, football for 29, and basketball for 25 - a distribution unusual in Alabama, where basketball tends to dominate inland city records. UMS Wright Prep School leads all buyers with 7 entries, followed by Faith Academy with 6. The record covers private schools, public high schools, a community college, recreation departments, apartment complexes, and youth sports organizations - a breadth that reflects how widely scoreboards are used across a mid-size coastal city.

What Sets Mobile's Record Apart From the Rest of Alabama?

Mobile's record runs 45 pre-LX rows against 43 LX rows - making it one of the few Alabama cities where the older era of scoreboards outnumbers the current LX series.

Alabama accounts for 1,928 entries in Electro-Mech's statewide sales and shipping archive, ranking it fourth among all 50 states. Within that statewide total, most cities with significant records show LX-series scoreboards as the majority. Mobile is an exception. The pre-LX half of the record covers 1999 through the early 2010s, when Electro-Mech was transitioning from its classic scoreboard platform to the current LX framing and LED construction. The LX entries begin in 2011 and run through the most recent shipment in the record - an LX7520 football scoreboard for Faith Academy, dated September 2024. That 2024 cutoff is current, though some other Alabama city records extend into 2025, as of August 2026.

The sport distribution is a second distinguishing feature. Baseball leads with 30 entries. Football follows at 29. Basketball accounts for 25. Four entries carry other sport codes, covering accessories and displays that do not fit under a single game-sport label. In most Alabama city records, basketball dominates because indoor gym scoreboards tend to drive a significant share of volume. Mobile's near-even distribution across baseball and football signals, in my view, a stronger investment in outdoor facilities - school stadiums, park fields, and recreational baseball complexes - compared to cities where basketball purchasing pushes the count heavily toward indoor displays.

The 56 organizations in the record represent a cross-section of the institutions that typically drive scoreboard buying decisions in a city this size:

• Private preparatory schools - UMS Wright Prep School, Faith Academy, St.Paul's School, Spring Hill College
• Public high schools - Baker High School, Murphy High School, Davidson High School, Vigor High School, McGill Toolen Catholic High School
• A community college - Bishop State Community College
• Recreation programs and athletic associations - West Mobile Youth, Westside Baseball, Westside Athletic Assoc, Springhill Recreation Center
• Church programs and academies - Cottage Hill Baptist Academy, Cottage Hill Academy, Crawford Baptist Church, Covenant Christian School
• Municipal and county programs - City of Mobile, West Mobile Co. Park & Rec

A prep school with multiple athletic fields and a gymnasium may appear under several sport codes across multiple orders. A youth baseball program typically appears once. The record captures what Electro-Mech sold and shipped to Mobile County addresses between 1999 and 2024 - it is not a count of what is standing in use today, and a scoreboard that shipped to storage rather than a venue still counts as a record regardless of whether it was ever fielded.

Which Organizations Bought More Than Once?

Twenty of Mobile's 56 organizations account for more than one record each, and six of those have three or more entries - with UMS Wright Prep School leading at seven and Faith Academy at six.

The table below summarizes every repeat buyer, with the organization spelled exactly as it appears in the record. Full row-by-row detail for all 88 entries follows in the complete record table.

UMS Wright Prep School's seven entries cover football, basketball, baseball, and a fourth entry under other - spanning 16 years from a pre-LX model in January 2002 to an LX3070 football scoreboard in March 2018. That breadth across sports and two eras is the longest continuous buying relationship in the Mobile record. Faith Academy's six entries run from August 2001 through September 2024 - 23 years, the widest date span of any organization in the record. Four of Faith Academy's six entries are football scoreboards, including an LX3680 in October 2013 and an LX7520 in September 2024, which is the most recent entry in the entire Mobile record. The record does not say what prompted any of these orders, what earlier scoreboards they may have succeeded, or what they cost.

Bishop State Community College's three entries are all basketball, consistent with a college program managing an indoor gymnasium. Westside Baseball's three entries are all baseball, spanning 2021 through 2023 - three orders in three consecutive years across the LX1136, LX1132, and LX1340 models. Baker High School's three entries cover football and baseball across 2003 to 2011, straddling the transition from pre-LX to early LX models.

Four entries logged on a single date - August 15, 2022 - stand out in the record. B.C.Rain High School, Davidson High School, New Stadium for Leflore High, and Vigor High School each received an LX3050 Play Clock Set and an LX3680 football scoreboard on the same ship date. Each organization counts as two records in the city total - one for the LX3050, one for the LX3680. The record is silent on the circumstances behind that cluster.

What Do the LX3680, LX3050, and LX2645 Contribute to This Record?

The LX3680 leads the LX-series count in Mobile with five entries, followed by the LX3050 Play Clock Set and the LX2645 at four and three entries each.

The table below shows the most-recorded model names in Mobile's record. Variants of one model are counted as that model: a 2350-PC and an LX2350 both count toward the 2350 tally, for example.

The LX3680 football scoreboard is an outdoor LED scoreboard for permanent installation. According to the LX3680 manual, the top cabinet measures 288.2 inches wide (24 feet), 60.2 inches tall, and 6 inches deep, and weighs 370 pounds on its own. The LX3680-ETN spec sheet puts the complete display - both cabinets combined - at 24 feet wide by 10 feet tall and 730 pounds, with a draw of 8.7 amps at 120 VAC for the ETN variant. Digit heights, per the spec sheet: 24 inches for scores, clock, down, yards to go, and ball on; 18 inches for time outs left; 10 inches for the football-shaped possession indicators. The LX3680 comes in 18 standard paint colors. Four of its five Mobile records shipped on the same date - August 15, 2022 - to B.C.Rain High School, Davidson High School, New Stadium for Leflore High, and Vigor High School. The fifth is Faith Academy's LX3680, shipped October 2013.

The LX3050 Play Clock Set is an accessory display, not a scoreboard. It ships in pairs - two physical displays per order line. Write it as the LX3050 Play Clock Set throughout; never as a scoreboard on a field. All four LX3050 entries in Mobile shipped on August 15, 2022, each paired with an LX3680 at the same school. Prior to the LX3050, Faith Academy received a 3050-PC football entry in July 2007 - that is the pre-LX equivalent of the play clock set and is counted separately in the pre-LX era.

The LX2645 has three entries in the Mobile record, all basketball. August Evans School received an LX2645 in October 2013. BC Rains High School received one in November 2012 - note that this spelling differs from the B C Rain and B.C.Rain entries elsewhere in the record; all three appear to be the same school under different spellings. Philips Preparatory School received an LX2645 in May 2016. The LX2645 spec sheet is not included in the evidence available here; its specifications would need to be confirmed from that document.

Sport Distribution in the Mobile Record

Baseball leads Mobile's record by a narrow margin - unusual for a city where basketball typically dominates inland Alabama records.

The four "Other" sport entries include the MP-368-Blank and LX6650-LR at UMS Wright Prep School, the LX6320 at West Mobile Youth, and the MP-378-TK-C-PA at Univ. South Alabama. The record uses sport codes as entered at the time of the order; "Other" covers multi-sport or specialty displays that the order system did not classify under a named sport.

Football and baseball together account for 59 of 88 entries - nearly two-thirds of the record. Baseball's slight lead over football reflects the number of recreational facilities, parks, and private schools that ordered baseball scoreboards, particularly through the 2000s and early 2010s. The 2022 cluster of four simultaneous football orders (B.C.Rain, Davidson, New Stadium for Leflore High, and Vigor - each receiving both an LX3050 Play Clock Set and an LX3680 on the same date) brought football nearly even with baseball in the overall count.

The Full Mobile, Alabama Sales and Shipping Record

Every entry in Electro-Mech's Mobile County sales and shipping record appears below - 88 rows across 56 organizations, with the organization spelled exactly as the record has it, the model, the sport code, and the ship date.

Organizations with multiple entries are listed first, in descending order by record count. Single-entry organizations follow alphabetically. Parks and fields that appear in the organization column - Cottage Hill Park, Matthews Park, Matthew Park Field A, Oscar Lipscomb Park, West Mobile Park, West Mobile Co.Park, Westside Park - are order-line labels from the record, not separately identified customers. The record does not say who purchased on behalf of those sites. One entry carries a shipping ZIP outside Mobile County; that entry is addressed separately in the section that follows this table.

How Should This Record Be Read?

Several entries in the table above require a plain-language note, because the record has quirks that can mislead a reader who takes every line at face value.

The Entry with a Chicago ZIP Code

One row in the 88-entry table carries a shipping ZIP code of 60616, which is a Chicago address, not a Mobile address. The record does not explain why that entry has a non-Alabama destination. I cannot identify which organization it belongs to from the data available, and the record does not say whether the display was later relocated or was purchased for use at a facility other than the ship-to address. It should not be counted as a Mobile scoreboard in the strict sense.

B C Rain, B.C.Rain, and BC Rains - Three Spellings, One School

Three rows in the table use different spellings for what appears to be the same institution - B.C. Rain High School in Mobile. The spellings as written in the record are:

• B C Rain High School - a 2655-C basketball scoreboard, shipped November 18, 1999
• BC Rains High School - an LX2645 basketball scoreboard, shipped November 12, 2012
• B.C.Rain High School - an LX3050 Play Clock Set and an LX3680 football scoreboard, both shipped August 15, 2022

The table reproduces each spelling exactly as the record has it. These three name variants appear to represent the same buyer, and the three distinct periods - 1999, 2012, and 2022 - suggest a school that ordered across different eras. However, the record does not confirm this, so the entries are kept as written.

The (Pick-Up) Notation

One row reads "Cottage Hill Baptist Church (Pick-Up)" with a 2350 basketball scoreboard and a ship date of December 6, 2006. Cottage Hill Baptist Church already appears in the multi-record section with two entries from November 15, 2006. The "(Pick-Up)" notation is not a separate organization; it is an order-line label indicating how that particular unit left the facility. It does not add a new buyer to the count.

Parks and Fields as Order-Line Labels

Seven rows carry what appear to be park or field names in the organization column: Cottage Hill Park, Matthews Park, Matthew Park Field A, Oscar Lipscomb Park, West Mobile Park, West Mobile Co.Park, and Westside Park. These are labels as the order was entered, not separately identified legal customers. The record does not name who made the purchase on behalf of each site - a city department, a youth sports organization, or a private entity could each be responsible. Reading them as distinct organizations would overstate the buyer count.

What the Record Does and Does Not Tell Us

The sales and shipping record shows what Electro-Mech shipped and where. It does not record what was installed, what is still operating, whether a scoreboard replaced an earlier one at the same site, or who paid for the order when a park or field appears in the name field. Where the record is silent, I have left it silent rather than infer.

Mobile's record is one of the more balanced city records in Alabama: 45 pre-LX entries and 43 LX-series entries, with baseball, football, and basketball all within five rows of each other. If you are looking for a scoreboard for a facility in Mobile - whether a school, a park, or a youth sports complex - Electro-Mech's support services team can help you identify the right model for your sport and venue size. Reach out directly to start the conversation, or browse the full scoreboard catalog to see the current LX-series lineup.