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ScorePAD™ Named "Official Scorekeeping Software" for Babe Ruth World Series

Babe Ruth League, Inc. has named ScorePAD, the PDA-based baseball scoring system, its official scorekeeping and statistics software for the 2003-04 World Series. ScorePAD will be used to score each game and compile all statistics associated with nine World Series venues for the next two seasons.

Each youth age group will compete at one of nine venues located throughout the United States. Venues for 2003 Babe Ruth Baseball World Series include: Williamsburg, VA, Aberdeen, MD, Pine Bluff, AR, Quincy, MA, Williston, ND, Jamestown, NY and Weimar, TX. The 2003 Softball World Series will be hosted in Wilson County, NC, and Louisville, KY.

Douglas Hines, President of ScorePAD, is pleased ScorePAD will represent one of the largest and fastest growing organizations of youth baseball and softball in the country. "We are happy that Babe Ruth League, Inc. chose to use ScorePAD for their World Series events. We designed ScorePAD to help leagues like Babe Ruth score games easily and communicate the results of those games on paper, through beaming, email, and Internet posting. Now amateur leagues receive the same mobility of information as the pros."

Joe Smiegocki, Babe Ruth League, Inc. Vice President of Operations & Marketing, liked ScorePAD's reputation in the field. "We are very excited about starting this new relationship with ScorePAD Sports. ScorePAD's handheld scoring system will be used at all nine World Series sites to easily score, track and disseminate game information over the Internet. The participating teams' hometown fans can keep track of their progress through the event from hundreds of miles away."

Amateur leagues have used ScorePAD since 1999 to score games, calculate statistics and post results to the Internet. ScorePAD has been used by Major League Baseball officials and broadcasters since 2000. During the 2002 season, over 2,400 television telecasts used ScorePAD.

Babe Ruth League, Inc. will hold its 52nd annual 13-15 Year-Old World Series in August of 2003. The international organization has a glorious history dating back to 1951 and its growth has increased steadily from its first 10-team league in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, to its present combined size of over 886,500 players on some 45,200 teams in more than 7,300 leagues.

ScorePAD is currently available at www.scorepad.com with prices ranging from $69.95 to $149.95 depending on the package. For more product information, customers can email ScorePAD at support@scorepad.com or call 678-270-4001.

ScorePAD Sports Inc., based in Atlanta, has been selling baseball scoring software for the Palm OS system over the Internet since 1998. ScorePAD Sports products include (1) ScorePAD Palm allowing customers to score games on their Palm OS systems, (2) RosterPAD Palm which allows customers to maintain rosters and statistics, (3) ScorePAD Desktop which is a Windows-based database used for compiling detailed statistics and player day-by-days, and (4) MLB Stats which enables customers to download rosters and statistics of Major League teams from the Internet. ScorePAD is the innovator in the field of high-tech baseball statistical scorekeeping and is currently the only real-time in-game scoring system used by television broadcasters. ScorePAD also customizes software for stadium matrix boards, scoreboards and in-house score bugs.

ScorePAD is a registered trademark of ScorePAD Sports, Inc. Palm and Palm OS are registered trademarks of Palm, Inc.