David Schoen was the guy who flipped the numbers on the manual scoreboard in the outfield at Minute Maid Park. He watched the games through a peephole.game at Minute Maid Park, you may have noticed the left field scoreboard with other MLB games. David Schoen was the guy behind there manually updating the scores.
"He is kinda the hand behind the manual scoreboard, he is the guy who flips the letters," his wife Tracy Schoen said. Kind of like the Vanna White of baseball except no one could see him. Tracy said the scoreboard operators sit in a dark, tight space but they find ways to watch the games. "Most of them, the guys, have found a little hidey hole where they can look in and see what's out there," she explained."A peephole where staffers can peek in on the game, which is what David used to do." "David had a seizure, an aphasic seizure where you can't speak," Tracy said. Tracy was going through his Astros souvenirs and memorabilia a few months later where she discovered he had stashed their wills.