Baseball Research & Analysis

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There's a giant body of worthy baseball research that never gets published or has become long out of print. This effort taps into it. Find out how you can submit articles of your own too!
Historic Teams - Articles from the web
Historic MLB Teams (1871-present):  Listed alphabetically by City and Franchise. Complete for 1999 back through 1871 when Major League Baseball began.  

Bill Burgess' Page (research & analysis). He is available for your questions. He posted research resources and articles not available anywhere else right here on BaseballGuru.com!

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William M. Burgess III's Reference & Research Archives Biographical Sketches (spreadsheet) - to acknowledge many who, despite having achieved a high degree excellence in their work, have yet to achieve proportional recognition. Baseball Prominant Families (spreadsheet) Research Sources & References (spreadsheet) Research Registers:Umpires Scouts Announcers Sports Writers Owners Managers & Coaches Spreadsheet All-Time All-Star Teams of Prominent Baseball Figures

Software Tools for Baseball Analysis Do your own analysis using the Guru's free stat gadgets. Download the Guru's T-Test Gadget - The ultimate arguement 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 Data
Data Archives/Baseball Stats - part of the Guru's web tour.

Sabermetrics
Introduction to Sabermetrics - Written by Jim Albert

Baseball Research & Analysis
SABR - The Society for Baseball Research. The Guru endorses SABR emphatically.  Check out links to the SABR members' baseball sites.  These people love baseball and go to great lengths to further baseball knowledge.
Retrosheet - founded in 1989 for the purpose of computerizing play-by-play accounts of as many pre-1984 major league games as possible.
Hardball Times - Excellent statistical resource.
Pro Baseball Newspaper Archive - search newspaper articles about pro baseball in more than 50,000 historical newspaper pages.
MLB Roster Central - Ken Bumbaco, complete MLB and minor league rosters and transactions.
The Baseball Think Factory - Jim Furtado and Sean Forman, the Baseball Think Factory ties together a wide range of baseball interests and information.Also see their BaseballPrimer with daily statistical nuggets along with our authors' opinions of the latest in baseball news and baseball analysis and BaseballStuff  where visitors are encouraged to participate by asking a question or by answering a question. Please share your knowledge.
HighBoskage - High Boskage House's Baseball Operations department provides consulting services and baseball statistical analysis to major league clubs.
Baseball Prospectus Online - Interesting statistical analysis, articles, projections, and fantasy Information.
Baseball: The Game and Beyond - Answers why a curveball curves and how ERA is calculated along with many more. Learn how to score a game and study the physics behind baseball. You can even hear Red Sox PA Announcer Ed Brickley's impressions of the game.
Exploratorium - Rob Weinberg, Science of baseball has articles, exhibits and activities with comic book theme. Fun!
ThinkQuest - You can learn how to score a game and study the physics behind baseball.
Baseball Pages - Greg Spira, Fantastic baseball links pages, which is part of Suite 101 the online publishing community.
MySportsGuru - Glossary of baseball terms and miscellaneous "how to" baseball info.
Statistical Studies of Baseball - John Jarvis, retired professor of mathematical sciences at the University of South Carolina-Aiken, provides links to baseball research papers.
Rational Pastimes - Professional research services to anyone who needs in-depth, high quality information on sports. We cover the business, statistics, culture, or history of any sport.
Baseball Library - James G. Robinson, The stories behind the stats.
Enlexica - The Language of Baseball - Cody Minnick, Baseball dictionary and thesaurus with over 5,000 terms.
Baseball History - More links? See this part of the Guru's web tour for more research help.

Baseball Rules
Jim's Baseball Rules Answers - Jim Booth, presents his fun source of MLB and Little League rules.  Take Jims Rules Quiz and find out how much you know.
MajorLeagueBaseball Rules - Rules listed by the Major League's offial web site.  Don't forget to check it's library for other information as well.

Books on Baseball
The Baseball Guru / Amazon.com Baseball Book Store  - Perhaps the largest collection of books dedicated soley to baseball, anywhere.

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