Keeping Soccer Moms (And Dads) On Point

SFGate.com:

One suburban soccer mom who always knows the score is Jill Barnes, of Dublin. Barnes, 52, has invented the Pocket Scorekeeper.

My son was playing baseball. Like with all the other games, parents were saying, ‘Does anyone know the score?’ ‘How many runs is that?’ I thought, ‘I can design something. I know exactly what this needs to look like.’ I had no experience designing products. I just decided to do it.

“Typically there aren’t any scoreboards, and if there is a scoreboard, it’s not functioning.

I came home, and, in this very kitchen, thought there has got to be something out there to help us parents keep score. I looked around and there was nothing. I sat down and designed it.

The Pocket Scorekeeper is a tool, device, gadget, to be used primarily by parents at youth baseball and soccer games when there is not a functioning scoreboard. For baseball it keeps track of the score for home, for visitors, innings and outs — the basic information you need to keep your head in the game. For the soccer scorekeeper, it has the half you are in and how many fouls, how many yellow cards are handed out. The soccer design could be used for lacrosse.

These sell for $4.99 retail and the wholesale price is $3. I sell them at baseball parks. The parent who runs the snack shack will contact me, buy 50 and put them in their snack shack to sell. I have an Internet site, Pocket Scorekeeper. They’re at All Star Sports in Pleasanton and G.R. Doodlebug in Danville and Pleasanton.