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Retrosheet's goal today is to provide as much information as possible about every baseball game played in major-league history. The results of our work can be explored through the menu items above. An overview of the game data we have available is summarized below.
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Negro League Baseball Retrosheet is pleased to present game...
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Notable Negro League Baseball Games. In its initial...
- Negro Leagues
10 kwi 2023 · Retrosheet is a project that computerizes play-by-play accounts of pre-1984 major league games and beyond. It provides free and open-source data for statistical and historical research, and is the source of Baseball-Reference.com's game accounts.
9 kwi 2023 · Retrosheet formally began in 1989, but the seeds for the idea were planted on July 18, 1958, when a 10-year-old Smith went to his first MLB game with his father: Phillies vs. Dodgers at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum -- with Smith’s boyhood hero, Sandy Koufax, on the mound for L.A.
Retrosheet is a website that provides box scores and play-by-play narratives for MLB games from 1871 to the present. It is affiliated with the Society for American Baseball Research and relies on volunteer contributions and sources such as scorebooks and newspapers.
18 wrz 2024 · Retrosheet was founded in 1989 for the purpose of computerizing play-by-play accounts of as many pre-1984 major league games as possible. Retrosheet's work has expanded considerably from its original inception while retaining the same core focus: major-league games.
Retrosheet provides the originally planned schedules for each major league season from 1877 through 2023, with postponements and makeup dates. The schedules are in parallel format and can be downloaded as zip archives.
David W. Smith (born March 17, 1948) is an American microbiologist, baseball historian and analyst, and statistician. He is best known as the founder of Retrosheet, a volunteer organization whose mission is to collect, digitize, and distribute play-by-play accounts from every game in Major League Baseball history.
