Comment by gorgoiler

One word:

Cricket

One of the many standout features of a sport that already includes:

- being famous for taking five days to play and often ending in a drawer;

- where a major component of play is the nature and timing of the ball falling apart; and

- where regular fielding positions have names like silly mid on, third man, cow corner, and square leg,

…is that since time immemorial cricket has had a symbiotic relationship with another deeply weird pastime, the art of cricket scoring, namely the erudite process of keeping track of the score:

https://preview.redd.it/englands-first-innings-scoresheet-v0...