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Bill Stone--Congratulations --I was following that auction closely--nice pick up. The New York Times on October 5, 1919 reported that 10,000 fans watched the final game of the 1919 World Series in Times Square on the Star Ball Player Scoreboard of the New York Times.There was a fabulous picture in the New York Times Magazine of the event. This was an invention of a relative of mine Paul C. Oscanyan, who was the President of the Star Ball Player Company of Bogota, New Jersey. I posted a request for information on the SABR network on early scoreboards and got a fantastic response from Jules Tygiel who wrote the book PAST TIME:BASEBALL AS HISTORY that includes a discussion of scoreboards --he also has lots of examples at his website. I would bet that if you contact him he can give you everything you need to know. By the way if you want to see the patent issued to Paul C. Oscanyan on Novemebr 18,1919 it is patent # 1,321,940 . Again enjoy the photograph and the research !!