Baseball history and statistics website
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Baseball history Available in English Founder Sean Holtz URL www .baseball-almanac .com Commercial No Registration None Launched April 24, 1999; 26 years ago (1999-04-24 ) [ 1] Current status Online Content license
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Baseball Almanac is an interactive baseball encyclopedia with over 500,000 pages of baseball facts, research, awards, records, feats, lists, notable quotations, baseball movie ratings, and statistics.[ 2] [ 3] [ 4] [ 5] [ 6] Its goal is to preserve the history of baseball.[ 2]
It serves, in turn, as a source for a number of books and publications about baseball, and/or is mentioned by them as a reference, such asBaseball Digest ,[ 7] Understanding Sabermetrics: An Introduction to the Science of Baseball Statistics ,[ 8] andBaseball's Top 100: The Game's Greatest Records .[ 5] Dan Zachofsky described it inCollecting Baseball Memorabilia: A Handbook as having the most current information regarding members of the Hall of Fame.[ 9] [ 10]
David Maraniss , author ofClemente, the Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero , described it as "an absolutely reliable and first-rate bountiful source, that supplied accurate schedules and box scores".[ 11] Glenn Guzo, inThe New Ballgame: Baseball Statistics for the Casual Fan , described it as having "a rich supply of contemporary and historic information".[ 5] Film criticRichard Roeper described it inSox and the City: A Fan's Love Affair with the White Sox from the Heartbreak of '67 to the Wizards of Oz as "one of the beauteous wonders of the Internet".[ 12] Harvey Frommer,Dartmouth College Professor and sports author, said ofBaseball Almanac : "Definitive, vast in its reach and scope,Baseball Almanac is a mother lode of facts, figures, anecdotes, quotations and essays focused on the national pastime.... It has been an indispensable research tool for me."[ 2]
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