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The Guru's Free Historical Stats Database for the Internet
Download the Guru's Free Database.  It links to the Internet and contains all of the batting, pitching and fielding data for every player ever (1871-2003). Easy to use and allows you to print reports. Data for the Internet database are based on many sources and relies heavily on The MacMillan Baseball Encyclopedia. Note: The online database has not been updated for 2004 yet and keeps giving an error message. If you don't mind the annoyance, its still a great resource.

If you prefer spreadsheet data... Guru's Private Stock.

The Guru's Baseball Data Archive Baseball Data Archive
You want numbers?  Here's free access to the Guru's Private Stock in downloadable spreadsheet form. You'll find that many of the spreadsheets include LahmanID's, which allow you to match these files directly to Sean Lahman's most outstanding free database.  Amazingly, his database provides the complete major league batting, pitching and fielding records from 1871 to present.  However, to save space, he leaves it to you to calculate all of the batting averages and earned run averages.  Luckily, the Guru helped out and went so far as to add many complex calculations for formulas created by various Sabermetric experts such as Bill James, John Thorn and Pete Palmer.  So, in combination with the Guru's enhancements, you'll be swimming in baseball data!

Tools for Baseball Analysis
Do your own analysis using the Guru's free stat gadgets.

Download the Guru's T-Test Gadget - The ultimate argument settler! Compare a player's stats to another player or to his team or to his league to find out if the amount that he is better (or worse) is statistically significant.

How it works:  Enter the "Base" (such as AB or IP) and the "Result" (such as hits or earned runs) for "Player 1" and "Player 2."  Player 2 can represent another player, a whole team or league totals depending on what you want to compare. The gadget will instantly tell you if the difference is statistically significant.

Baseball Encyclopedias, Interactive Databases and Archives
Major League Baseball - Sortable stats in great detail from the official site of the major leagues.
Big Leaguers - Official site of the MLBPA posts an alphabetical listing of all players with their profile, career stats, situational stats, batting splits (by team, day/night, grass/turf, etc.), stats for batters by every pitcher they ever faced (and vice versa) and game logs.
CBS Sportsline - The mother of all baseball stat sites.
Baseball 1 - Sean Lahman, The baseball archive is truly a gift to baseball fans everywhere. The site has all kinds of historical baseball information, highlighted by his downloadable baseball database for use with Microsoft Access.
The Baseball Cube - Complete player, team and league statistics for MLB and Minors! Even has Japanese baseball data for MLB migrators.
Baseball-Reference  - Complete player, team and league statistics for the Major Leagues. Also includes leaders in every major statistical category, and many, many other interesting numbers.
STATS Fantasy Sports - Baseball database, widely used.
Retrosheet - Find box scores, narratives, game logs and event files of MLB games. It's an incredible resource for game summaries and stats.
Past Baseball Action - Nando Sports Server presents MLB box scores and summaries of every game from 1995 season to present.
The Sporting News, Vault - A baseball archive of unexpected delight.  You'll find history and box scores of every all-star game and world series.  The history of the little league world series with yearly summaries, records and photos.  They also share photos, letters and the like from Hall of Famers.  It's lot's of fun.
ESPN - Sortable stats for players, teams and leader boards.
Statzone - Excellent. Track your fantasy team's daily progress with their special roster tool. Data provided by STATS inc.
CNN/SI (profiles and statistics) -  Baseball historical profiles and basic yearly statistics, listed alphabetically by player's last name, presented by CNN and Sports Illustrated.
CNN/SI (advanced statistics) - Batting, pitching and fielding statistics for all active MLB players by home/road, grass/turf and more.  Find out who's got the highest HR ratio on the road!
SportsIllustrated.CNN - All time rosters and stats.
USA Today - Baseball stats provided by Elias Sports Bureau. Has hard to find Spring Training data since 1992.
MSNBC - All data by STATS inc.  Player Stats / Team Stats / Player Rankings
Bigleaguers.com - Personal home pages for every player in major league baseball, presented by the Players Association. Virtual baseball cards and photos.  Email any player, get his vital info and stats for this season in progress.
SportServer - Incredible archive dating back through 1995, which includes MLB every box score, World Series and All-Star game coverage, "This Date in History," and other eclectic data. A must see.
Budman's - Budman's player valuations. The Guru has not verified the accuaracy of the data, but it is broken down by first and second half of the season, so it's valuable. He also made up a player valuation system.
Statistics in Sports - A Section of the American Statistical Association. Has a wide selection of stats.
BaseBallDataBase - Keneth Matinale's baseball database software for your pc makes looking up baseball stats and exporting them to a spreadsheet a piece of cake and you don't need Microsoft Access to use it. The only drawback is that the stats are "unofficial" and therefore possibly inaccurate.
Sabermetric Baseball Encyclopedia - powerful, yet easy to use, sabermetric baseball encyclopedia can be ordered for a nominal fee. The Guru cannot vouch for it's accuracy, but it has some interesting variables.

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Baseball-Almanac - Minor League database for 1930-1985.
Minor League Baseball - Official Site
Baseball America - Current Minor League stats
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