Pocket schedule

A '''pocket schedule''' or '''fixtures card''' is a small card or foldable paper guide which typically fits in a wallet or pocket. A typical pocket schedule may contain a full season match schedule for the team, including dates, match times, and opponents.<ref name="Mullin" />{{rp|249}} It may also include venue information, contact information for purchasing tickets, promotional events, major sponsor advertising,<ref name="Irwin" />{{rp|104}} and radio and television broadcast data.

It is most often used by sports clubs or their sponsors for marketing purposes, which often pay for the production and printing of the schedules.<ref name="Mullin" />{{rp|249}}

Pocket schedules for ice hockey date back to at least the early 1900s,<ref name="Waldman" />{{rp|at=Pocket schedules}} and those for baseball to at least 1903.<ref name="Turner" />{{rp|15}}

They are part of sports memorabilia that are difficult to find in the secondary market because so many are damaged.<ref name="Waldman" />{{rp|at=Pocket schedules}}

==References== {{reflist| <ref name="Irwin">{{cite book|title=Sport promotion and sales|last1=Irwin|first1=Richard L.|last2=Sutton|first2=William Anthony|last3=McCarthy|first3=Larry M.|edition=2nd|publisher=Human Kinetics|date=2008|isbn=9780736064774}}</ref> <ref name="Mullin">{{cite book|title=Sport marketing|last1=Mullin|first1=Bernard James|last2=Hardy|first2=Stephen|last3=Sutton|first3=William Anthony|edition=3rd|volume=13|publisher=Human Kinetics|date=2007|isbn= 9780736060523}}</ref> <ref name="Waldman">{{cite book|title=He shoots, he saves|last=Waldman|first1=Jon|publisher=ECW Press|date=2015|isbn=9781770906549}}</ref> <ref name="Turner">{{cite book|title=Baseball in Little Rock|last=Turner|first=Terry|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|date=2004|isbn=0738533009}}</ref> }}

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