[CQ-Contest] Online Scoreboards

[Barry Jacobson]

Wow! You've had a fascinating career. Thanks very much for the memories.
They used to say about the Cubs, anybody can have a bad century. I watched
Ernie Banks's 500th homer on TV called by Jack Brickhouse.

Keep up the good work and stay well.

Barry WA2VIU

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Barry Jacobson
WA2VIU
bdj at alum.mit.edu
@bdj_phd

On Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 8:48 AM Jim Brown <k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:

> On 7/19/2023 6:27 PM, Barry Jacobson wrote:
> > I remember as a kid in Wrigley Field they had separate cards with each
> > number and they would manually stick them in the windows of the
> scoreboard
> > to display the score, as it changed. It was outage proof.
>
> I designed two generations of sound systems for the Cubs, the second as
> they remodeled their park to install lights. I remember getting a tour
> of the scoreboard sometime in the late '70s or early '80s.  The Cubs
> were good to me -- they paid my invoices promptly, were loyal, and gave
> me the opportunity to buy tickets for playoff games. My young son took
> advantage of my roaming pass to bug players for autographs on the field
> during warmup.
>
> When Pete Rose was pursuing a home run record, he had a couple of
> chances to do it at Wrigley Field, and I was hired to make sure that
> sound worked for his press conferences after the game. I remember a
> rainy Saturday afternoon game -- at the same time, I was responsible for
> the Chicago Jazz Festival, five miles away, and my guys made it happen
> while I sat choice seats behind home plate watching Pete's at bats.
>
> I never met Pete, but my impression of him, watching him deal with the
> press, is that he was a class act. Never saw him get snarly, never
> anything but respectful. Many years later, I read a couple of his bios.
>
> Oh, yeah -- I also had the wonderful opportunity of hanging out in the
> press box with jazz violin legend (and composer of one of my favorite
> Standards of the Great American Songbook, "Detour Ahead"). The legendary
> Chicago jazz promoter Joe Segal, spent a lot of summers in the
> bleachers, and arranged for Dizzy Gillespie to play the Anthem there one
> day. I made a point of being there to see that the sound was right!
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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