January 2006
Beginner
467 pages
14h 21m
English
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Baseball Web Sites
There are probably thousands of different web sites that cover baseball. Here are a few of my favorites:
- Baseballprospectus.com
The most entertaining source for forecasts and commentary on baseball, with good resources for the fantasy player.
- ESPN.com
The best of the big commercial sites. It has everything: scouting reports, commentary from comedy writers (like Bill Simmons) and stats geeks (like Bob Neyer and Gary Gillette), play-by-play descriptions, salary information, links to articles in local newspapers, and even sabermetric stats.
- Retrosheet.org
In addition to play-by-play files, this site has the best collection of information on historic games. You can find box scores for many, many games, going back more than 100 years.
- Baseballthinkfactory.org
Another good web site in the spirit of Baseball Prospectus.
- MLB.com
The official site always has up-to-date statistics, and it has been adding lots of great stuff like spray charts, matchups, and other information.
- Baseball-Reference.com
A good site for finding baseball statistics, based on the Baseball DataBank database.
- SABR By the Numbers
You can get past issues of the SABR “By the Numbers” newsletter at http://www.philbirnbaum.com.
- Works of Bill James
Stephen Rony, a SABR member, has been collecting detailed information about Bill James’s publications and has posted a guide at http://members.cox.net/sroneysabr/JamesIndex/index.html.
- Baseball Analysts
http://www.baseballanalysts.com is another well-written baseball blog.
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