Abstract: A hand-held electronic sports data retrieval device that accesses sports player names and other biographical information based upon inputting a player's number. The unit contains all of the current season's biographical sports player data, organized by team, and also contains the individual team's schedules. Top level user system operations are simplified by allowing the user to switch from one function mode to another directly and without going through any intermediate steps. The unit is desired to be extremely low cost, and all biographical data is kept current by downloading current information into a field programmable memory chip and inserted into the unit prior to shipment. A real time clock within the device sets schedule parameters upon unit initialization.