Scoreboard
Greer's distinctive guitar-shaped scoreboard was manufactured by the Fairtron Corporation and installed by the Joslin Sign Company prior to the 1993 season. It is painted black with red, yellow, and white trim, and is located behind the outfield wall in left-center field.
The line score is displayed on the guitar's neck, while the ball/strike/out count, the batter's uniform number, and the hit/error indicator are all situated on the headstock. Six small advertising signs represent the tuning keys. The body of the guitar features an LED display board and a low resolution color matrix board. Between the two boards are an analog clock and a current temperature display. Around the boards are four large spaces for advertising; the two on top are static, and the two on bottom rotate between three images each. High-tension nets cover the electronic sections to protect them from home run balls. Above the board is a circular advertising space. This space originally displayed the team's guitar-swinger logo, and at times has displayed other Sounds logos. Originally, when a home run was hit, the guitar-swinger logo would light up and perimeter lights around the entire scoreboard would begin flashing; it was also capable of shooting fireworks after each Sounds home run. In recent years, the scoreboard has been in a state of disrepair. When MFP Baseball purchased the team in late 2008, they repaired the scoreboard, making it once again fully functional. It was also repainted black, red, yellow, and white over its original red, white, and blue color scheme to reflect the team's present colors, and one of its original monochrome matrix boards was replaced by an LED display.
The entire scoreboard measures 115.6 feet (35.2 m) across, 53 feet (16 m) high, and 2 feet (0.61 m) deep. Individual components of the guitar are as follows: 60-foot (18 m) body, 36-foot (11 m) neck, and 19.6-foot (6.0 m) tuning key section. It is installed approximately 80 feet (24 m) above the ground. It takes 243,155 watts to power its 8,179 total lamps, which are connected to 64,169 feet (19,559 m) of wire. The entire display weighs 35,825 pounds (16,250 kg).
The stadium's original scoreboard was a black, non-descript, rectangular unit with a two line reader panel. In 1985, it was moved to beside the left field foul pole to make room for a new rectangular 4-line scoreboard 10 feet (3 m) high with a fully animated reader panel. The original unit was then used as an out-of-town scoreboard, displaying the scores of other baseball games. When the guitar display was installed in 1993, the original scoreboard was removed and replaced by the second scoreboard, which became the new out-of-town board. As of 2008, the out-of-town scoreboard is no longer in use, but remains installed in the park.
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