Stats and Records
The Seventh Edition of Total Baseball, published in 2001
is the official encyclopedia of Major League Baseball and
contains a wealth of information on the game's history and
personalities. Especially intriguing is the authors presentation
of the 100 best players and their reasons and basis for
selection.
Retosheet.org offers a wealth of stats, box scores and other information.
BaseballReference.com has a wealth of material on players, teams, leagues, and awards from the games professional beginnings to the present.
The
Society of American Baseball Research is major organization
for fans and historians of baseball and has pioneered many
sophisticated ways of evaluating past performance. It has its own
section of links.
THE SPORTING NEWS offers a variety of stats and records as well.
USA TODAY is an excellent source for in season statistics and offers some of the best day after box scores available.
The most comprehensive set of baseball links, John Skilton's Baseball Links. offers sections for stats and records as well as many other areas.
This page was last updated
March 31, 2005
Special thanks to
Katherine Stalcup, Suzanne Tapp, and Paul Williams and the staff
of the Texas Tech Teaching Learning and
Technology Center for their patient and tireless assistance with
this page. Also, my thanks to the Teaching Learning and
Technology Center for supporting this page with grants for
1998-1999 and 1999-2000.
Photographs
are by Jim Harper unless otherwise noted. Larger versions and
more information about photographs with Library of Congress (
i.e. LC-USZ6-2054 DLC) or National Archives (i.e.
NWDNC-241-PATENTRES-72X) identification numbers can usually be
obtained by searching either the Library of Congress, "American Memory," section, or the National
Archives (NAIL) search vehicle.
Background image, an
old-timer (George Herman "Babe" Ruth) swings during the
1940s.
Original photograph provided by William R. Conroy.
Copyright, Jim Harper, Texas Tech University