Keeping your key information in one place is one way to better organize your replay.
Start with an all-encompassing three-ring D binder book. There are lots of different sizes, but I use a one-and-a-half inch binder book.
The D-ring specification may sound picky, but when you start going back and forth through the pages, you find that there is a considerable difference between C-ring and D-ring binder books. D-ring binder books allow easier back-and-forth flipping through pages. They are at any Office Depot or Staples or any office supply store.
Use tabs to organize the sections in your binder book. My binder book includes the following tabbed sections:
- Team vs. team results (each team’s W-L against other teams)
- Pitching rotation on a day-by-day basis
- Month by month results (W-L, home, away, total)
- Transactions (dates, special notes on when deals occurred)
- Injuries and ejections (who was injured, when, how long, circumstances)
- Real life (actual statistical information relevant to your replay)
Your binder book can incorporate whatever information is most important or most interesting to you. Which information is, of course, is a personal choice. The point is to afford the information you will consult on the most frequently consulted basis a place to reside and provide you with an easy means of finding it.
Next: What sections to keep inside your Replay binder book?
Love these articles. I keep pretty much the same things you do, except that, in the back, I have a sheet showing the final standings from my other 60s replays, and a record of all the no-hitters I have ever had, excepting my very first replay in which I didn’t keep any special notation on that. I once had back-to-back no hitters on consecutive days by the same team (’65 Cardinals) against the same team (’65 Cubs).
PS–I also keep a record of every walk-off hit, every batter who drives in or scores 4 runs, every pitcher who throws a 2-hitter or better, and every 12 strikeout performance, though I may have to loosen that one up as there weren’t any at all in the whole month of April ’69.