Baseball tally card

Claim 1

A baseball tally device comprising a flat rigid rectangular face plate having a front surface with indicia marked thereon and a plurality of apertures including 1st base, 2nd base and 3rd base apertures, three aligned ''''ball'''' apertures, two aligned ''''strike'''' apertures, two aligned '''' outs'''' apertures, two elongated ''''hits'''' aperture one for each team, and two ''''runs'''' aperture one for each team; a rigid rectangular back plate coextensive with and affixed to the rear surface of said face plate, said back plate having a plurality of L-shaped recesses formed therein, said recesses having enlarged rectangular inner portions which comprise the foot of said L-shapes, a plurality of manually operable L-shaped indicator tab strips having enlarged foot portions matingly received in their respective cooperating recesses, and said tab strips comprising two contrasting visual indicia one of which is coextensive with each of said foot portions of said tab strips, said tab strips being, slidably mounted between said face plate and said back plate, each of said tab strips engaging one of said recesses and juxtaposed into selective registry with a respective one of said apertures in said face plate, said tab strips including one tab strip for each of said ''''ball'''', ''''strike'''' and ''''outs'''' apertures respectively, each of said ''''ball'''', ''''strike'''' and ''''outs'''' tab strips being movable between progressive positions so that one of said con1rasting visual indicia selectively appears in from none to all of said respective apertures, a tab strip for each of said ''''hits'''' apertures slidable between a plurality of positions wherein the boundary line between said contrasting indicia thereon registers with a ''''hits'''' scale marked in said face plate adjacent said ''''hits'''' aperture; and two ''''runs'''' discs and means for pivotably mounting said discs between said face and back plates, one of said discs disposed adjacent each of said ''''runs'''' apertures and having a plurality of ''''run'''' numerals printed thereon whereby the rotary position of each disc relative to its respective aperture determines which numeral will be located in said aperture, each of said tab strips being received and confined for limited sliding movement in a respective recess whereby each tab strip is slidable between inward and outward limit positions defined by cooperation between the enlarged inner portion of its respective recess and the enlarged inner portion of said strips.