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.
Its goal is to preserve the history of baseball.
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 a
''Baseball Digest''''Understanding Sabermetrics: An Introduction to the Science of Baseball Statistics''
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''Baseball's Top 100: The Game's Greatest Records''
''Collecting Baseball Memorabilia: A Handbook''
as having the most current information regarding members of the Hall of Fame.
David Maraniss
David Maraniss ( ; born 1949) is an American journalist and author, currently serving as an associate editor for ''The Washington Post''.
Career
''The Washington Post'' assigned Maraniss the job of biographer for their coverage of 2008 president ...
, author o
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described it as "an absolutely reliable and first-rate bountiful source, that supplied accurate schedules and box scores". Glenn Guzo, i
''The New Ballgame: Baseball Statistics for the Casual Fan''
described it as having "a rich supply of contemporary and historic information".Richard Roeper
Richard E. Roeper (born October 17, 1959) is an American columnist and film critic for the ''Chicago Sun-Times''. He co-hosted the television series '' At the Movies'' with Roger Ebert from 2000 to 2008, serving as the late Gene Siskel's success ...
described it i
''Sox 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".Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...
Professor and sports author, said of ''Baseball 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."
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