In this April 10, 2014 photo, John Weber keeps score with a pencil and scorecard as he watches a baseball game between Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs at Wrgley Field Thursday, in Chicago. The 86-year-old retired transit worker figures he is an increasingly rare kind of baseball fan. Between batters and between pitches, most fans in the stands at Wrigley _ and everywhere else in the majors _ take their eyes off the game to peck away at smartphones, not bothering to try to figure out the baseball hieroglyphics that Weber and other purists scrawl on their cards. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
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