[greymule]

I got the "Braille" indicator a few years ago.

Positives:

Very heavy duty stainless steel. You could use it as brass knuckles if things got really out of hand. It will last forever.

The construction quality and machining are very fine. You can take it apart and clean the insides easily.

Except for the notched wheels, it is smooth in your hand.

It has a wheel for innings. More useful for counting runs in slow pitch, except that each inning you have to remember how many times you've gone past zero. (Did they get 22 or 32?)

Negatives:

The numbers are very hard to see even in the daytime.

The wheels are hard to turn and get harder as you use it. Your fingertips will get sore from turning the wheels all day (the notches are rather sharp). I'm going to try to oil it.

Eventually you get used to the notching, but the "feel" doesn't follow a natural order. You have to use it a while before you remember which particular notches mean what. I have to keep looking at it to make sure I'm feeling the right numbers. It's more like, "Hmmm, this feels like two strikes, but let's look to make sure." The instant count they claim you get is a stretch, for me.

I also have the aluminum +POS indicator. The catalogue says it's heavy duty stainless, but it's not. Good indicator, though. You don't have to fight the wheels to turn them.

I guess the Braille one is a cool thing to have, but I find myself using +POS's cheaper indicator, the plastic one with big, easy-to-read numbers.

My favorite indicator was a Rawlings. It cost me 49 cents and served me well for many years, until the plastic wheels finally disintegrated. I've kept it, not because the case is metal, but because the indicator itself is a real rarity: stamped into the metal are the words "Made in U.S.A."