DC Sox Baseball, Inc. is a small, deliberate electronics shop working out of 217 Cottonwood Dr, Centerville - 84014-1212, United States (US). We design, retrofit and repair the equipment that turns a game into a clean, readable record: foul-poll displays, umpire timers, bullpen counters, field light control panels and the cable paths that tie them together. Every project starts with a walk of the park and ends with a scorebook that matches what the crowd saw.
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Foul Poll Stand
Idle glow, ready for first pitch.
Chalk Line Rail
First pitch logged at the plate.
Pitching change recorded at the bullpen.
Field crew signed off on the light test.
The Shop
We care about the quiet equipment. The parts nobody photographs, but every scorer, umpire and groundskeeper leans on from the first inning to the last out.
DC Sox Baseball, Inc. has spent its history inside the spaces between the dugout and the press box. That is where a game actually gets recorded: a foul-poll display that has to be legible from the cheap seats, an umpire timer that cannot drift, a bullpen counter that a coach can trust at a glance. Our work is unglamorous by design. We prefer a panel that opens neatly and a cable run that a maintenance crew can trace in the dark.
The Service Deck
Everything below is built and serviced by the same crew in Centerville. Each service links to the detail page where we explain the parts, the testing and the handover.
Older parks still run foul-poll boards on lamps that were never meant to dim. We pull the old harness, rebuild the lamp stand on a modern driver and keep the original face so the park still looks like itself.
The retrofit is measured against sightlines, not datasheets, so the display reads cleanly from both foul lines. Read the full detail on the services page.
Pitch clocks and between-inning timers live or die on stability. We install disciplined timing hardware with a local reference that survives power sags and hot afternoons in an unvented box.
The crew trains the umpires on the start, stop and reset sequence so a disputed clock never becomes a disputed game. See how the umpire timer scope is laid out.
A bullpen counter is a simple promise: the coach looks up and knows exactly how many warm-up throws have gone. We build the counter with a sealed mechanical head and a hard-wired reset that cannot be bumped by accident.
Labels are set in high-contrast lettering and mounted at coach height. The bullpen counter write-up covers mounting and calibration.
Field lights are the one system that must never surprise anyone. We rebuild control panels with stepped contactors, a locking master and a labeled schedule so the groundskeeper can bring the park up in a predictable sequence.
Every circuit is tested for inrush and balanced across phases, with a written panel map left in the cabinet. Review the light control panel service for the full scope.
Cabling is the part of a ballpark that ages fastest and fails quietest. We map every run, replace degraded feeders and leave a pull string and a numbered tag at both ends of each conduit.
The result is a scoreboard that can be serviced without opening a wall. The scoreboard cable run plan describes our survey and labeling.
Practice facilities run on a different clock than game day. We stage portable timers and interval stations for drills, cage sessions and conditioning groups, all sharing one reference so the whole campus runs to the same second.
Gear arrives in labeled cases with a printed setup card for the coaching staff. See the spring training timer package on the services page.
DC Sox Baseball, Inc. opens its spring install window in early February, when the quiet parks in Centerville are still cold enough to work without a crowd in the way.
How We Work
We start on foot with a light meter and a notebook. Every display is judged from the seats that matter: the low foul-line corner, the top of the bowl and the scorer table behind home plate.
Nothing gets installed without a panel drawing and a numbered cable schedule. The same sheets stay with the park so the next technician inherits a clear map.
We run each system through a full game simulation, then walk the staff through start, stop and reset. A signed handover card sits in the control room.
DC Sox Baseball, Inc. keeps a single crew and a single standard of work. When we come back to a park we serviced five seasons ago, the drawings still match the cabinet. That continuity is the whole point of hiring a system designer rather than a general electrical contractor.
Our clients range from municipal parks with one field to training campuses that run a dozen spaces at once. Each one gets the same survey, the same labeled drawings and the same walkthrough at the end. If a system cannot be explained to the person who will actually use it, we have not finished the job.
We are reachable at 217 Cottonwood Dr, Centerville - 84014-1212, United States (US), and by phone at +19309058086. The contact page has a short request form and the shop hours.
Inside the Scoredeck
The scoredeck is our working name for the whole family of devices that feed a park scoreboard. The baseline score strip is the readable spine: inning plates that light in sequence, a running total and a spare row for extra innings. It is built so that a scorer can update it with one hand while holding a lineup card in the other.
Around that spine sit three smaller instruments. The foul-poll display reports a simple yes or no to the crowd and does it without glare. The umpire timer holds the pitch clock to a stable reference. The bullpen counter tallies warm-up throws where the pitching coach can see them. All three share the same enclosure family and the same mounting hardware, which keeps a park from accumulating a museum of mismatched boxes.
Behind the instruments are the two systems that keep a night game possible. The field light control panel sequences the poles in a safe order and records every switch event. The scoreboard cable runs carry the low-voltage signals and the power feeder together, separated and labeled so any fault can be isolated in minutes rather than a long afternoon. When spring arrives, the same wiring discipline carries over to the spring training timers that keep a practice campus on one shared clock.
If you are planning a new build, a retrofit or a repair after storm damage, the crew in Centerville will walk the park with you and leave a written scope before anyone touches a wire. That is the promise behind every service on this page.