CW Pencils Baseball Scoring Pencil

12/27/2024

The CW Pencils Baseball Scoring Pencil

The CW Pencils Baseball Scoring Pencil is a baseball themed pencil that was originally created for the legendary CW pencil shop on the Lower East Side by General Pencil Company in Jersey City. You can now buy them at the Locavore shop on 6th avenue in NYC from Caroline, the creator of the pencils (she is also a Mets fan!). I also have extra if you wanna bum one off of me. The pencils come in a pack of 6 and are presharpened with a very short point. The box they come in has a cute design and is inspired by old baseball tickets.

The core is fairly soft and dark, but hold a tip surprisingly well in my opinion. It's quoted to be around a B or 2B grade, and I would say it's around a B/HB for tip strength a 2B for darkness and a B for softness (if that makes any sense haha). The stroke is dark but doesn't seem to smudge too easily. I would describe the writefeel as closer to writing with a marker than a ballpoint pen.

For those that aren't familiar, pencils are graded by either B, HB, F or H. Where B is more soft/dark/bold, H is more hard/light/firm, HB is your standard "number 2" pencil, and F is between HB and H for some reason. Higher numbers like 2B,3B,2H,3H indicate more bold or more hard.

The eraser is unusually good and erases the pencil's dark strokes with ease. The eraser is also fairly soft so there's no risk of tearing your page but it might wear down a bit fast. The casing is California cedar cut to a round shape and lightly varnished. It's a pretty smooth texture, which combined with the roundness means it's a little slippery if you're a butterfingers type. Overall I think it lives up to the billing as a "baseball scoring" pencil. Its marker-like writing style is well suited to writing little numbers and letters in boxes like on a baseball scorecard, and the soft eraser means you wont be struggling at the ballpark. It also holds a tip well enough to last 9 innings of detailed scoring.

I always thought it would be fun to do a full scorecard at a ball game, so maybe using these pencils will finally inspire me to do it!

A baseball scorecard from a Toledo Mudhens (AAA Tigers) game taken from The Toledo Blade