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August 31, 2004More Fun Baseball Facts
Why am I turning into such a baseball nut in August? Anyway, if your interest in baseball borders on the trivial, you'll love the Baseball Almanac at http://www.baseball-almanac.com . Not that there isn't a lot of great information here. From...
August 17, 2004Find Out About the Business of Baseball
Interested about more in baseball than the infield fly rule? Find out about at the Business of Baseball site, now at http://www.businessofbaseball.com . It's for people who want to learn about the business end of professional baseball. The site is...
Continue reading "Find Out About the Business of Baseball" » August 10, 2004Baseball Cards at the Library of Congress
Yup, the LOC has a lighter side. And they're proving it in this collection of 2100 baseball cards. Early baseball cards. And when I say early I mean 1887 to 1914. You can see 'em at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/bbcardsabt.html . This seems...
Continue reading "Baseball Cards at the Library of Congress" » April 26, 2004Library of Congress Releases Base Ball Guides
The Library of Congress, apparently feeling the baseball groove as we go through April, has announced the release of "Spalding Base Ball Guides 1889-1939." It's available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/spaldinghtml/ . This collection reproduces 35 of the Spalding Official Base Ball Guides...
Continue reading "Library of Congress Releases Base Ball Guides" » April 21, 2004Baseball Links
I admit it; I'm a Cubbies fan. I like the commentators, I like the stadium, and I can watch the games on WGN. I'm not really big on baseball in general, but I did appreciate the offerings at Baseball Links...
March 11, 2004Getty Images Teams Up with Major League Baseball
Getty Images has reached an agreement wih Major League Baseball to create a Major League Baseball photo archive containing over one million images. Two separate Web sites will be developed. One will be for commercial sites and one will be...
Continue reading "Getty Images Teams Up with Major League Baseball" » June 03, 2003Fastpitch Softball!
Drat, now I want to go over to the batting cages and hit a couple. The Fastpitch softball directory ( http://www.fastpitchsoftballdirectory.com/) is a categorical listing of all things fastpitch, including an e-zine. Instead of the usual Yahoo-type layout, this site...
October 16, 2002Finding Baseball Literature Citations With The Baseball Index
Looking for baseball literature citations? Look no further than http://www.baseballindex.org/ . This site, an ongoing project of the Bibliography Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research, allows you to search for references to baseball people, or topics, or do...
Continue reading "Finding Baseball Literature Citations With The Baseball Index" » August 15, 2002Ancient Baseball, Saved in Data Files
Retrosheet ( http://www.retrosheet.org/ ) is a site with old baseball information. The goal of the organization behind the site, according to the site, is "computerizing play-by-play accounts of as many pre-1984 major league games as possible." Why? Statistical analysis. From...
October 30, 2001NY Times Creates Premium Content Baseball Site
The New York Times announced yesterday the launch of a premium content collection called "Glory Days: Baseball in New York 1947-1957." The site includes audio from interviews with New York Times sports columnist Dave Anderson, New York Times photographs of...
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