Research Resources – Society for American Baseball Research

Research Resources – Society for American Baseball Research
SABR Research Resources
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Additional SABR Resources
The resources below are organized loosely by subject matter and category. Click on a link below to scroll down:
Analysis
Biographical
Business of Baseball
College/Amateur Baseball
Early History/Origins
How-To
Minor Leagues
Negro Leagues
Pictorial/Images
Publications
Research Projects
Specialized History
Statistics/Records
Team/League/Local History
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Analysis
SABR Defensive Index calculations
The SABR Defensive Index page at
SABR.org/SDI
includes updated rankings for SDI values for all qualified players who qualify for the Rawlings Gold Glove Award. Since 2013, the SDI has been used to help select the Rawlings Gold Glove Award and the Rawlings Platinum Glove Award, presented by SABR.
Lahman Database
The
Lahman Baseball Database
, created by SABR member Sean Lahman, contains complete batting and pitching statistics back to 1871, plus fielding statistics, standings, team stats, managerial records, postseason data, and more — now including the Negro Leagues. Lahman’s database allows baseball researchers to perform complex queries across the entire history of the game. The Lahman Baseball Database has served as the foundation for many popular baseball research projects and simulation games, including Out of the Park Baseball and Baseball Mogul
A Guide to Sabermetric Research
We’re often asked, “I’d like to know more about sabermetrics, but where do I begin?” Longtime SABR member Phil Birnbaum, editor of the SABR Statistical Analysis Committee newsletter, “By the Numbers”, has authored a “Guide to Sabermetric Research” to help answer your questions. Whether you’re just starting out or you’d like a refresher course, whether you’re a numbers wizard or you consider yourself math-phobic, we hope you’ll find Phil Birnbaum’s “Guide to Sabermetric Research” informative and interesting.
Biographical
The Sporting News Baseball Player Contract Cards Collection
The Sporting News Baseball Player Contract Cards Collection is an important primary source for information about the lives and careers of nearly 180,000 professional baseball players, made available thanks to SABR and the LA84 Foundation. These index cards, maintained over a 105-year period beginning in 1886 by clerks at the weekly sports newspaper
The Sporting News
(TSN), contain a record of each ballplayer’s basic demographic data and their contract status. In addition to players, another 10,000 cards document umpires and team executives.
Click here
to search/browse the collection at LA84.org or
click here to learn more
2000 Cups of Coffee, 1900-49
By Marc Okkonen
Players who appeared in the major leagues in 10 games or less in the first half of the 20th century from 1900 to 1949. Researched, compiled and assembled by Marc Okkonen. PDF file size: 38.7 MB.
Business of Baseball
1915 Federal League case files
The
SABR Business of Baseball Committee
has made available scanned documents from the original filing of the 1915 Federal Baseball lawsuit against organized baseball. This is the civil case in which the Federal League of Professional Baseball Clubs sued both the American League of Professional Baseball Clubs and the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, as well as various teams and owners, over the signing of players already under contract in the former league. (The precursor to the
famous 1922 Supreme Court decision
in the
Baltimore Baseball Club
case.) In this anti-trust case, the Federal League claimed the American and National Leagues controlled baseball commerce. The case involved many of the leading baseball figures of the day, such as Charles Comiskey, August Herrmann, Joseph Tinker, Lee Magee, Cornelius McGillicuddy (Connie Mack), Charles Ebbets, and Charles Weeghman. Included in the records are affidavits, contracts, exhibits, petitions, notices, complaints, memorandums, and the judgment. The scanned documents represent nearly 2,000 pages.
SABR Business of Baseball documents
SABR’s Business of Baseball Committee has collected files related to the business of baseball here, including MLB collective bargaining agreements, labor lawsuits and legislation, antitrust hearings, performance-enhancing drug memos and Congressional testimony, and other documents.
SABR Team Ownership Histories Project
A joint effort of SABR’s
Business of Baseball Committee
and the
BioProject
. The intention is to keep its essays up-to-date and to provide as much detail as possible about the organization and composition of ownership groups, franchise sales, relocations, stadiums, and other issues that provide the financial context for team success on the field.
Click here to read the articles
or learn more about contributing.
College/Amateur Baseball
Baseball America’s Ultimate Draft Book
Allan Simpson, founding editor of
Baseball America
, has made available to SABR members a special e-book edition of
Baseball America’s Ultimate Draft Book
, his comprehensive guide covering the first 50 years of the amateur draft.
Click here to download the free PDF e-book edition
. Originally published in 2016,
Baseball America’s Ultimate Draft Book
combines all the information of a great reference title with all of the great stories that make draft history so rich. For each year of the draft from 1965-2015, you’ll find a complete team-by-team draft list, with who signed and who didn’t, who reached the big leagues and who washed out.
SABR Collegiate Baseball Team Guides
The SABR Collegiate Baseball Team Guides represent a summary of information gathered by members of the
Collegiate Baseball Committee
. The guides attempt to provide a comprehensive record of key components of each school’s intercollegiate baseball program, including head coaches, win-loss records, postseason records, and alumni who have played in the major leagues, minor leagues, or Negro Leagues. A separate file exists for each school. Counting inactive programs, approximately 2,000 schools have fielded an intercollegiate baseball team since the first game between Williams and Amherst in 1859.
Early History/Origins
19th Century League and Team Resources
The 19th Century League and Team Resources collection, organized by SABR’s Nineteenth Century Committee, aims to collect all available pre-1900 baseball documents and make them available online to future researchers. The collection includes dozens of documents from the National League’s founding in 1876 to the NL’s final season as a sole major league in 1900. It also includes National Agreements for most seasons, American Association Constitutions from 1882 to 1891, early club constitutions and rules dating back to the 1845 Knickerbocker Rules, and more.
Protoball.org
The Protoball website is a working database that covers the evolution of ballgames from Ancient Times through 1870, just before the first professional baseball league began. It is a collaboration between members of SABR’s Nineteenth Century and Origins research committees, and includes a tabulation of early “base ball” games in American cities and territories, a glossary of hundreds of baseball-like ball games that our national pastime was derived from, and interactive maps that help you visualize the spread of baseball over time.
Preston D. Orem’s
Baseball From the Newspaper Accounts (1882-1891)
Historian Preston D. Orem’s original ten volumes covering professional baseball for each season from 1882 to 1891 are now available as a PDF download for all SABR members, with a new foreword by John Thorn and preface by Bob Bailey.
Click here
to download the PDF file (714 pages, 30 MB). Orem’s previous
Newspaper Accounts
book, self-published in 1961, covered the 1845 to 1881 seasons but this title, originally released in 1966-67, is much harder to find.
American Association History Project
In 1993, a new long-term committee project was introduced by late SABR founding member Bob McConnell. McConnell’s goal was to produce a book-length history of the 19th-Century American Association (1882-1891), its teams and participating cities. Initially, a great deal of research was conducted under the direction of McConnell, Bob Bailey, and Jonathan Dunkle. By the late 1990s, the project stalled and eventually the project was halted indefinitely. Thanks to Joanne Hulbert (collecting the research files), Trent McCotter (scanning the files) and Jacob Pomrenke (uploading the files on the SABR website), the files are now available to all SABR members.
How-To Guides
Member Benefit Spotlight series
In our SABR Member Benefit Spotlight video series, hosted by Jessica Smyth, learn more about some of the key resources and benefits available to SABR members, including how to contribute to SABR projects and publications, find upcoming events, promote your baseball research, use the membership directory, and more.
SABR’s The Baseball Index
The Baseball Index is an ongoing project of SABR’s Bibliography Research Committee to catalog the entirety of baseball literature, from the earliest references to the present day. Containing more than 250,000 citations, TBI is an
index
to baseball literature, a guide to what has been written about baseball subjects. Find bibliographic data (citations) for books, articles, song sheets, yearbooks, advertisements, films, cartoons, poems, media guides, cartoons, and more at
baseballindex.org
How to Do Baseball Research
How To Do Baseball Research
is an ongoing project by the Society for American Baseball Research. It is intended as a resource for SABR members, or other researchers interested in baseball’s history or statistics. The project inherits the tradition started by
The Baseball Research Handbook
, edited by Gerald Tomlinson and published by SABR in 1987. That book was updated as
How To Do Baseball Research
and published in 2000. The current iteration at
SABR.org/how-to
was first made available in 2012.
SABR Bibliography Committee Research Guides
From 1985-1991, a series of 15 research guides was published by SABR’s Bibliography Committee. These guides were intended to help researchers more easily find specific articles and subjects in various publications such as
Sporting Life
The Sporting News, Current Biography, Dictionary of American Biography, Who’s Who in Baseball, Baseball Stars, Guide to Baseball Literature
and various history journals.
John Spalding’s “Guide to Baseball Guides, Record Books, and Registers, 1869-1995”
This 64-page PDF is a comprehensive guide to 270 baseball publications that were produced annually from 1869 to 1995. The annual Spalding (no relation), Reach, and
Sporting News
guides covered the professional and amateur game, including major articles, comments, statistics, and other significant material from the previous season.
Minor Leagues
Going for the Fences: The Minor League Home Run Record Book
Click the link above to download a PDF e-book version of
Going for the Fences
, edited by SABR founding member Bob McConnell and published by SABR in 2009. In
Going for the Fences
, McConnell painstakingly compiled statistics, facts, and stories about home run records in the minor leagues from the 19th century through 2008 — the only reference work dedicated to minor-league home runs. Records in more than 50 categories are listed, and helpful annotation throughout enables the researcher or casual fan to place statistics in context. (To purchase a paperback version of this book,
click here to visit Amazon.com
.)
SABR Guide to Minor League Statistics
, 3rd edition
Between 1995 and 2007, SABR’s Minor Leagues Committee published three editions of what was originally called
The Guide to the Guides
— a comprehensive recording of
where to find
published minor-league player and team statistics, primarily in the annual guidebooks published by
The Sporting News
Baseball America
Spalding, Reach
Sporting Life
, and others. This guide covers minor-league seasons from 1887 to 2006, and it includes specific date and page numbers for the guidebooks to help future researchers locate with precision where that year’s minor-league statistics can be found.
Minor League No-Hitters
SABR member Chuck McGill is compiling a comprehensive list of all historical minor league no-hitters. The updated list can be accessed or downloaded as a Google document by
clicking here
SABR
Minor League Baseball Research Journal
(1996)
Download a PDF file of the inaugural edition of the
Minor League Baseball Research Journal, Vol. 1
(1996), edited by Carlos Bauer and Bob Hoie. This volume is divided into two sections, a narrative section that contains articles — with ample statistics — on two leagues, the West Texas-New Mexico League, by Ron Selter; and the Pacific Coast League, by Carlos Bauer; a seminal work on ballparks in the Los Angeles area, with detailed park drawings, by Larry Zuckerman; and a marvelous portrait by Ed Brooks of one of the most unique personalities ever to don a uniform, Bill Sisler. The second section comprises the “Statistical Abstract” section, focusing on the foot soldiers of minor league baseball research, those unsung heroes who spend day after day compiling final league averages from newspaper box scores on grainy microfilm.
Minor League Stars
SABR published three volumes of
Minor League Stars
books, containing records and profiles of hundreds of players who were prominent in baseball’s minor leagues.
Minor League Stars
was published in July 1978 and handed out to members at the 1978 National Convention. Bob Hoie and Ray Nemec produced the lion’s share of the load.
Minor League Stars Volume II
was published in 1985 and contained records of 180 players and twenty managers.
Minor League Stars Volume III
was published in 1992 and contained records of 253 players. Click on each book’s title to download a PDF copy of each volume of
Minor League Stars
Patric Doyle Professional Baseball Player Database research files
Patric Doyle’s work to document the statistical history of minor league players led to the publication of his Professional Baseball Player Database on CD-ROM in the mid-1990s. Early editions had yearly statistical records for every player who appeared in the official Baseball Guides back to the 1930s, and subsequent research filled in the gaps for leagues and players who did not appear in the published totals. These files — which are being made available to all baseball researchers for the first time at SABR.org — chronicle the details of much of that research which Doyle and his colleagues compiled and serve as an important reference source for those interested in the statistical history of minor league baseball.
Negro Leagues
1887 National Colored League resource guide
SABR member Ken Mars, with contributions from Mark Aubrey and John Thorn, put together a new collection of articles about the first African American professional baseball league: the National Colored League in 1887. The guide includes Mars’s presentation, “Early Black Baseball in Baltimore: 1865-1887,” from the 2017
SABR Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference
, 1887 NCL standings and a day-by-day guide, plus notes on the NCL organization’s formation, the season, and its aftermath.
Click here to download and view the resource guide
(PDF).
Pictorial/Images
SABR-Rucker Archive
The SABR-Rucker Archive is one of the most extensive collections of baseball images in North America, with nearly 65,000 unique images from the roots of baseball in the 19th century up to current major league teams and players. Over time, the collection will become more robust as we work to catalog the entire collection. SABR also controls the rights to the Rucker Archive images and they can be purchased using the link on each individual image page.
Publications
Baseball Analyst
archives, 1982-89
Baseball Analyst
, a Bill James creation that he self-published from 1982 to 1989, was one of the first publications to feature articles devoted to sabermetrics — a phrase he coined in part to honor SABR. Thanks to the generosity of James and Phil Birnbaum, we are pleased to offer the entire run of
Baseball Analyst
for the first time online at SABR.org, with an introduction by Rob Neyer. Each of the 40 issues is available for download as a PDF file.
Baseball Magazine
archives, 1908-20
Early archives of
Baseball Magazine
, a monthly periodical with statistical analysis and human-interest features focused on the national pastime, are available online thanks to a partnership between SABR, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the LA84 Foundation.
SABR
Baseball Research Journal
archives
Read articles from SABR’s flagship publication, 1972 to the present. Click here to download an
Index to SABR Publications
(compiled through 2006).
SABR The National Pastime
archives
Since 2009,
The National Pastime
has served as SABR’s convention-focused publication. Published annually, this journal provides in-depth articles focused on the respective geographic region where the convention is taking place in a given year. From 1982 to 2009, the magazine was intended as a more literary outlet for SABR members to publish their research.
SABR Digital Library books
SABR members can download all Digital Library publications for free or get 50% off the purchase of paperback editions, including original titles on great players like Roberto Clemente and Sandy Koufax; memorable teams like the 1942 Kansas City Monarchs, 1969 New York Mets, and 2004 Boston Red Sox; and themed topics on ballparks, umpires, scouts, and much more.
SABR Bulletin
archives, 1971-2011
The
SABR Bulletin
was established as SABR’s quarterly newsletter in 1971. Its purpose was to facilitate the exchange of baseball research and information — the first publication of its kind. PDF archives of the
SABR Bulletin
can be found on this page. In 2011, SABR established “This Week in SABR,” a weekly e-newsletter sent out to all members via e-mail on Fridays with more timely updates and announcements.
Sporting Life
archives
Archives of
Sporting Life
magazine, an early American sports weekly that emphasized baseball coverage, are available online thanks to a partnership between SABR, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the LA84 Foundation. Baseball researchers can browse the
Sporting Life
weekly newspaper in its own collection.
Click here to browse the
Sporting Life
issues at LA84.org
Research Projects
SABR Baseball Biography Project
The lofty goal of the SABR BioProject is to write a high-quality, journal-length biography of every player who ever played in the major leagues. More than 6,000 biographies have been written by 600-plus SABR members. We also write about managers, executives, umpires, scouts, broadcasters, or any subject who impacted the history of the game — someone from the Negro Leagues, the minor leagues, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, Japan, Cuba, and more.
SABR Featured Spotlights
SABR’s special online Featured Spotlights are multimedia presentations that offer a deeper dive into baseball subjects ranging from Jackie Robinson to the Supreme Court to the Black Sox Scandal.
Four or More Home Runs in a Single Game
SABR’s list of all known players to have hit four or more home runs in a single professional game, first published by SABR founding member Bob McConnell in “The Minor League Research Journal, Vol. 2” in 1997, updated in
Going for the Fences: The Minor League Home Run Record Book
(2009), and now maintained online at SABR.org.
SABR Games Project
The SABR Baseball Games Project aims to research and write articles on major-league and Negro League regular, postseason, and All-Star Games. These game accounts will complement Retrosheet and Baseball-Reference box scores as well as BioProject essays on the players involved. All games, regardless of their historical significance, are eligible to be written up.
SABR Home Run Log
The Tattersall-McConnell Home Run Encyclopedia has been licensed to Baseball-Reference.com and is publicly available there. Go to any player’s page at
Baseball-Reference.com
, click on the “Finders & Adv Stats” tab, and then click on
“Home Run Log”
to access the data.
SABR Landmarks Baseball Map
Check out thousands of baseball-related attractions, historical markers, and other landmarks with the SABR Baseball Map, launched by the Landmarks Committee in 2023. The map can be accessed on your desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone.
SABR Little League Home Runs Database
SABR member Chuck Hildebrandt builds off his award-winning presentation at SABR 45 in Chicago to compile a list of all known ‘Little League Home Runs” in major-league history. By the end of the 2016 season, he confirmed a total of 329 Little League Home Runs throughout MLB history. All plays listed within this database have been confirmed by newspaper accounts or video evidence, and each play includes two links: one to the Retrosheet box score of the game, the other to either the newspaper or video accounts confirming them.
Near Major Leaguers
SABR member Bill Hickman has recently completed research into “near major leaguers” — the aspiring professional players who were invited to spring training, who appeared in spring training games, or who were called up during the regular season but never appeared in an MLB game. These include “phantom major leaguers” like basketball great Bill Sharman, and spring-training players or non-roster invitees like Michael Jordan or Charley Pride. These lists are now available for all baseball researchers to view, via a Google Docs spreadsheet.
SABR Oral History Collection
SABR’s
Oral History Committee
has compiled a list of more than 800 interviews with ballplayers (Majors, Minors, Negro Leaguers, AAGBBL), executives, scouts, authors, writers, broadcasters and fans. Visit
sabr.org/oralhistory
to listen to any interview in our collection or to learn more.
SABR Research Committee Newsletters
SABR research committees publish online newsletters throughout the year, and are always seeking writers, editors, and other contributors. Some committees, such as Baseball Cards, Games and Simulations, Asian Baseball, and Baseball Landmarks, also publish original articles on their own committee websites.
SABR Spring Training Database
A comprehensive historical and geographical listing of all professional spring training locations was compiled by the
Spring Training Research Committee
and is made available online here. These databases download as text-searchable PDF files.
SABR Triple Plays Database
A downloadable database of all triple plays that have taken place in the major leagues since 1876, including the Negro Leagues. Find a comprehensive list of all known triple plays in major league history, sortable by date, team(s), runners on base, play sequence, fielders, pitchers, opposing batter, unassisted, end of game, and other categories. … If you’re interested in minor-league triple plays,
click here to access a list
of all known triple plays in minor-league baseball, compiled by SABR member Chuck McGill.
Specialized History
Sullivan Family Baseball Research Center (San Diego Central Library)
All SABR members are invited to visit the Sullivan Family Baseball Research Center, home of the SABR Collection, at the San Diego Central Library near Petco Park. The Baseball Research Center opened in 2001 with an initial collection of books and microfilm donated by SABR’s
Ted Williams Chapter
. In the years since, it has grown to more than 3,000 publications, books, and journals, and 300 microfilm reels, all available to the public at San Diego’s downtown library. In 1998, the Ted Williams Chapter partnered with the Central Library to open the research center and the initial acquisition was made in 2001. Today, baseball fans and researchers can also view thousands of books on baseball history from its early origins in the 1700s to the present day, biographies, instruction manuals, encyclopedias, Spanish-language titles and San Diego Padres scrapbooks. The SABR collection also includes microfilm reels only available in one other location, the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library in Cooperstown, including 19th-century baseball scrapbooks, American Association and Union Association records, Black Sox Scandal archives, player questionnaires and minor league contract cards. For more details on the Baseball Research Center’s SABR Collection, including a downloadable, bilingual research guide,
click here
SABR/Baseball-Reference Encyclopedia
Your first stop to learn about any baseball-related topic. SABR and Baseball-Reference.com have merged their baseball research wiki sites to organize a single repository of collective baseball knowledge. SABRpedia entries such as the Spread of Baseball Project and the Collegiate Baseball Database are now available in the same place as the Bullpen’s detailed histories of Negro League teams and minor league players. Visit
SABRpedia.org
to access the SABR/Baseball-Reference Encyclopedia.
SABR Convention History
Check out multimedia highlights of every SABR annual convention since our founding in 1971.
SABR Organizational History
As we entered the 21st century, SABR published its first organizational history: a Turner Publishing Co. book simply titled
Society for American Baseball Research
The 112-page book, which debuted in 2000, also included special stories, essays and articles by SABR members; and biographical sketches of members. For our 40th anniversary in 2011, we updated that SABR history book to reflect the ensuing decade — and also made it much easier to find. Tom Hufford, one of the organization’s
16 founding members
, took Dick Thompson’s original “A History of SABR” text and added more details as SABR has grown. It was also edited by Gary Gillette, Bill Nowlin and Jacob Pomrenke.
Emerald Guide to Baseball
Download previous editions of the
Emerald Guide to Baseball
, a comprehensive annual guide to the season and the upcoming season; a successor to the yearly The Sporting News Guide. Previous editions can be found here:
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
Gene Carney’s Black Sox Notes Index
For nearly two decades, Black Sox Scandal historian Gene Carney wrote a semi-regular column called “Notes From The Shadows of Cooperstown” from his home in Utica, New York. Between 2002 and 2009, Carney’s research focused almost exclusively on the ill-fated events of October 1919, the cover-up that followed, and the legal proceedings which put Shoeless Joe Jackson, Eddie Cicotte, and the other Chicago White Sox players involved on the record.
Click here
to view the entire collection of Gene Carney’s “Notes” columns related to the Black Sox Scandal, along with a Chronological Index and a Subject-Matter Index for those who are interested in digging deeper.
Statistics/Records
Frank Williams/Alex Haas statistical corrections, 1901-1919
Thanks to SABR member Pete Palmer, the following invaluable research files are available at SABR.org. 1) Frank Williams documented many errors in the official pitching statistics of the American League from 1901-19. The PDF files in the link above contain a listing by year for each AL team from 1901-19. Each pitcher has a record by date of every game pitched, whether the appearance was a start, complete game or relief, and the decision or save if any. 2) Alex Haas compiled a daily record of batters’ hit by pitch from 1909 until the leagues started compiling the data officially (1917 NL and 1920 NL). Pitching data had been kept by the leagues since 1902 in the NL and 1908 in the AL, but not batting. The PDF files in the link above contain a listing each year by team of all the batters’ hit by pitch, with the date and opposing pitcher. 3) In addition, data used by Eldon and Harlan Mills to compute
Player Win Averages
in 1969-70 is also available.
Team/League/Local History
1897-1912 newspaper scans
SABR member Jonathan Frankel has set up a Google Docs library with hundreds of newspaper game accounts (play-by-play, game write-ups, game notes, box scores) that he collected and used during his recent research project on batter strikeouts. These newspaper scans cover the years from 1897-1912 and include editions from the following newspapers: Chicago (Daily News); Cincinnati (Commercial Tribune, Enquirer); Cleveland (Leader); Detroit (Times); Louisville (Courier Journal, Times); New York (Evening Telegram, Evening World); Philadelphia (Evening Telegraph, Evening Times); and St. Louis (Chronicle, Globe Democrat, Republic, Star). Most files downloadable in PDF, JPG or TIF formats. Note: Not all games are covered for a given paper/year. To help add newspapers to this library, contact
jlfrankel@comcast.net
1902-1919 Milwaukee Brewers research files
SABR member Dennis Pajot, an expert in the early history of Milwaukee baseball, has offered to share a series of manuscripts that he has prepared on the Milwaukee Brewers of the American Association. These research files — one for each season — include more than 1,600 pages of original research on the Milwaukee Brewers from their beginnings in 1902 until the end of the Deadball Era in 1919. The Brewers rosters in those years included some of the most interesting characters in the game, including Hall of Famer Ray Schalk, his Black Sox teammate Happy Felsch, baseball clown Germany Schaefer, Olympic star Jim Thorpe, Cy Slapnicka (who later scouted Bob Feller), and manager Joe Cantillon (who later signed Walter Johnson.)
Colorado-Born Players Almanac
SABR’s Rocky Mountain Chapter maintains a list of major league players born in Colorado, along with biographical sketches, statistics, SABR bios, and more information.
San Diego Padres: The Westgate Years, 1958-1968
In 1997, the San Diego Padres and San Diego Baseball Historical Society published the first two volumes of a trilogy about the Padres of the Pacific Coast League, written by SDBHS founder Ray Brandes. They were known as the
Lane Field Years: 1936-1946
(Volume I) and
1947-1957
(Volume II.) Volume III,
The Westgate Years: 1958-1968
, was completed in 1998, but never published. SABR’s Ted Williams Chapter recently digitized this volume and has made it available as a free PDF download for all SABR members.
Around the Web
Here are some more publicly available baseball research resources found on the Internet.
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Note: Subscription services denoted with an asterisk. SABR does not endorse, and is not responsible or liable for, any content that appears on a third-party website.
Analytics
Baseball Savant
The Baseball Cube
Baseball Prospectus
Brooks Baseball
FanGraphs
David Pinto’s Baseball Musings
Tom Tango
538.com’s timeline history of baseball team quality
Ballparks
Ballpark Digest
Ballparks of Baseball
Digital Ballparks
Retrosheet Ballparks
Seamheads Ballparks Database
Baseball Cards
Library of Congress Benjamin K. Edwards Collection
Old Cardboard
Trading Card Database
Business of Baseball
Cot’s Contracts
Operating Rules (Cliff Blau)
Collections (Libraries and Museums)
Chicago Collections Consortium
Cleveland Public Library
Ernie Harwell Collection (Detroit Public Library)
Museum of the City of New York
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
New York Public Library
Omnia
Smithsonian Institution
Encyclopedias
Baseball Almanac
Baseball Reference
Retrosheet
Lee Sinins’ Baseball Encyclopedia
Genealogy
Ancestor Hunt
Ancestry
Genealogy Bank
Gravesites and Necrology
Hall of Fame gravesites (Stew Thornley)
RIP Baseball
The Deadball Era
History
19th Century Baseball (Eric Miklich)
Baseball History Comes Alive (Gary Livacari)
Baseball Hall of Fame: American History and You
Baseball Heritage Museum (Cleveland)
Boston Baseball History
Center for Canadian Baseball Research
Chicago Baseball Museum
Diamonds in the Dusk
Henry Chadwick Archives (MLB)
Pages from Baseball’s Past (Craig Wright)
Rochester Baseball Historical Society
World Series Rings
Individuals
Babe Ruth (official)
Buck Leonard
Jackie Robinson (official)
Jackie Robinson Foundation
Josh Gibson Foundation
Satchel Paige
Walter O’Malley (official)
Interviews
AAGPBL interviews (Grand Valley State University)
Baseball Almanac interviews
Eugene Murdock Oral History Collection (Cleveland Public Library)
Twins Trivia interviews
This Great Game
Japanese-American Baseball
Nisei Baseball Research Project
Jewish Baseball Players and Stories
Jewish Baseball Museum
Jewish Baseball News
Minor Leagues
Mike McCann’s Minor League Source
Dave Trombley’s Minor League Info
Western Canada Baseball (Jay-Dell Mah)
Player Photo Index
Team Photo Index
Negro Leagues
Center for Negro League Baseball Research
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
Seamheads Negro Leagues Database
Newspapers, Historic
Ancestry Historical Newspapers Collection
Brooklyn Eagle
California Digital Newspaper Collection
Elephind
Fold3 newspapers
* (military newspapers)
Fulton History (New York newspapers)
Genealogy Bank Newspapers
Google News
HathiTrust Digital Library
Library of Congress: Chronicling America
Media History Digital Library (movie periodicals)
Newspaper Archive
Newspapers.com
New York Clipper
New York State Historic Newspapers
Trove (Australia)
Newspapers, Lists
The Ancestor Hunt
Cyndi’s List: Newspapers
Wikipedia: Online newspaper archives
Periodicals and Books
Baseball Digest Archive
Google Books Advanced Search
Library of Congress: Digitized Books
Sports Illustrated Vault
World Series Programs (Detroit Public Library)
Photography and Art
Associated Press Photos
The Baseball Portraits of Carl J. Horner, 1902-1909
Chapman Deadball Collection
Chicago Collections
Conlon Collection (Getty Images)
Digital Public Library of America
Getty Images
Infinite Baseball Card Set (Gary Cieradkowski)
Leslie Jones Baseball Photographs (Boston Public Library)
Library of Congress: Prints and Photographs
Life Magazine Photo Archive (Google)
Negro League Player Photo Index
Old Ballparks (Flickr)
Sports Illustrated (Getty Images)
Teenie Harris Archive (Carnegie Museum of Art)
Reference Material
Beadle’s Base Ball Guides (Northern Illinois University)
Dickson’s Baseball Dictionary (Baseball Almanac)
Early Baseball Publications (Library of Congress)
Internet Archive: Baseball Guides
League Constitutions/Rulebooks (University of Maryland)
Online Baseball Guides (Mark Aubrey)
Spalding Guides (Library of Congress)
SABR Member Websites
Gary Ashwill
(Negro Leagues)
Charlie Bevis
(baseball analysis)
Cliff Blau
(operating rules, 19th century, and more)
Alan Nathan
(baseball physics)
John Thorn
(baseball history)
Stew Thornley
(Minnesota baseball, official scoring, no-hitters, gravesites)
David Trombley
(Upper Midwest baseball)
Sports Writers
Sports Writers Register (Baseball Guru)
Statistics
Baseball-Reference
Retrosheet
Team and Region-Specific
Cleveland Memory Project
Milwaukee Brewers (1902-52)
Minneapolis Millers
(Stew Thornley)
North Dakota
Twins Trivia
TV, Radio and Film
Baseball in Old-Time Radio
Classic Baseball on the Radio (YouTube)
Historic Baseball Newsreels (Sherman Grinberg Film Library)
Internet Archive: Vintage Baseball Radio
MLB Classics (YouTube)
This Day in Baseball radio broadcasts
Uniforms
Dressed to the Nines (Baseball Hall of Fame)
St. Louis Cardinals uniforms
Threads of Our Game: 19th Century Uniforms (Craig Brown)
Uniform Lineup
Women in Baseball
All-American Girls Players Association
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