Hi Greg,

We all know you've been to more than 120 games in the last 27 years so either your writing is very tiny or your summarizations are kept to a brief line or two in order for all of your experiences to fit into that 60 sheet (120 page) notebook of yours.

Yeah. How many books is the log, really?

And, is there a second log of games not attended?

The people need to know.

Only need one line per game. Using the first Tales post as an example:

8/15/81 Sa Philadelphia 2-1 Leach 1 5-13 W 3-1

Date of game
Day of week
Opponent
My record vs opponent
Met starting pitcher
Times I've seen starting pitcher
My record (Mets W-L in games I've attended)
Result and score

That's all I need to write down. Everything else is up here (pointing at my head) or here (pointing at retrosheet and other such helpful sites).

Hi Greg,

So, if there are just 20 lines per sheet and 120 sheets, that means you have room to log 2,400 ball games. Divide that by 27 years and (considering the log spans three strike-shortened seasons) it means attending an average of maybe 91 games per year to fill it up.

81 home games plus ten road contests each season.... that doesn't sound too unreasonable.

clearly the log knows who's who and what's what: it's "gregg-ruled."
any steno, and thus any steno pad, knows there's no points off for typos.