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Baseball "Tinker to Evers to Chance!" 
 Small presentation about "Chicago Cubs infielders Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance [who] formed the most memorable double-play combination in the history of baseball." Includes baseball card images for all three, and a short poem about the three baseball players ("Baseball's Sad Lexicon"), written in 1910 by a New York newspaper columnist. Portion of a larger exhibit from the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bbhtml/bb1.html Topics: Baseball Last updated Mar 15, 2006 10 Great Moments in Baseball Superstition History
This September 2005 article describes some baseball behavior based on superstitions. Examples include the "Curse of the Bambino, which mercifully ended its reign when the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series," and the related "Curse of the Billy Goat" associated with the Chicago Cubs, the "classic baseball superstition [that] requires that teammates must not talk to a pitcher who is working on a no-hitter," and more. From the Seattle Times. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2002518793_artmoments25.html Topics: Baseball Last updated Oct 20, 2005 Amateur Softball Association (ASA)
Features information about tournaments, local associations, youth and adult programs, and umpire clinics. Includes a FAQ, the ASA Code and changes, and ASA history. http://www.softball.org/ Topics: Sports, The Olympic Games: Competitions Last updated Mar 4, 2006 Anaheim Angels
American League Western Division team at Edison International Field in Orange County, California. http://angels.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=ana Topics: Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Feb 1, 2007 Babe Ruth League
A youth baseball and softball organization that has grown "from its first 10-team league in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, to its present combined size of over 886,500 players on some 45,200 teams in more than 7,315 leagues." The site provides information about the divisions and the Babe Ruth League World Series, a list of Major League Baseball players who played in the Babe Ruth League, news, and more. http://www.baberuthleague.org Topics: Baseball, Sports, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Oct 12, 2004 Ballbug
This blog, started in April 2006, "spotlights the most buzzed-about baseball news from thousands of web site. It auto-generates a summary page every 5 minutes, drawing on local news sites, national sports media, and baseball bloggers of various stripes" and provides links to the underlying material. Features links to Major League Baseball (MLB) and major newspaper stories. From bloggers who also have sites about politics and technology. http://www.ballbug.com Topics: Baseball Last updated Apr 6, 2006 Ballparks of Baseball: The Fields of Major League Baseball
This site offers information on past, current, and future Major League Baseball ballparks. Includes photos, seating charts, and a history of each park, as well as news stories, statistics, and fun facts. Searchable. http://www.ballparksofbaseball.com/ Topics: Baseball, Photograph Collections, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Jul 8, 2004 Baseball Almanac
This easy-to-use site offers baseball history, awards, records, feats, humor, lists, quotations, statistics, poetry, songs, U.S. presidential baseball trivia, rules, scoring, recommended reading, and a "year in review" section starting from 1901 for the American League and from 1876 for the National League. All features are searchable, including the quotations and "Fast Facts" found on every page. This site is a veritable field of dreams for baseball fans and reference librarians alike! http://www.baseball-almanac.com/ Topics: Baseball, Poetry, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Jul 31, 2002 Baseball America Online
This online presence of the print version, covers major league, minor league, college, and high school baseball, including draft and hot prospect information. Major league team pages provide analysis of farm system, minor league schedules, and links to newspapers covering the minor league team. http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/ Topics: Baseball, Magazines, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Aug 4, 2009 Baseball as America
This site is a companion to a traveling exhibit featuring artifacts from the Baseball Hall of Fame. The exhibit "reveals how baseball has served as both a public reflection of, and catalyst for, the evolution of American culture and society." The site features commentary and images of exhibit highlights, an exhibit overview (topics such as ideals and injustices, enterprise and opportunity, and sharing a common culture), and a tour schedule. http://www.baseballasamerica.org Topics: Baseball Last updated Aug 17, 2009 Baseball Heckle Depot
For those of you baseball lovers wanting some great one-liners, wisecracks, and putdowns, over 650 "heckles" are available here. Use the subject index to find comments to umpires, pitchers, fielders, and batters. You can also find ballplayer comebacks, trivia, and chants. Vote for the heckle of the month, print out the visiting team's roster, and prepare to chant your favorite insult. http://www.heckledepot.com/ Topics: Baseball, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Jul 31, 2000 The Baseball Index (TBI)
An index of citations to over 200,000 baseball "books, magazine articles, programs, pamphlets, films, recordings, songs, poems, cartoons, advertising, or anything else that may be of interest to the baseball fan or researcher." Offers tips for locating the actual materials. Searchable, and browsable by name or topic. From the Society for American Baseball Research. http://www.baseballindex.org/ Topics: Nonfiction by Genre, Poetry, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Apr 27, 2006 Baseball Salaries Database
This database "contains year-by-year listings of salaries for Major League Baseball players on opening day rosters, 1988 through the current season. The search options here allow you to see salaries for specific players, plus median and total salaries for each team." From data "compiled by USA TODAY sports reporters." http://content.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/salaries/ Topics: Baseball, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Sep 4, 2009 Baseball Scorecard
You can't tell the players without a scorecard! This helpful site includes a glossary of baseball terms, a tutorial on keeping score, links to other sites that offer information on scoring a game, links to maps showing how to get to ballparks, downloadable scorecards, and more. Play ball! http://www.baseballscorecard.com/ Topics: Baseball, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Jun 25, 2002 Baseball Think Factory
Baseball news, analysis, blogs, articles, and more. Searchable. http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/ Topics: Baseball, Blogs & Podcasts by Subject, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated May 15, 2004 Baseball-Reference.com
Here you can find baseball statistics browsable by player, teams, leagues, leaders, awards, postseason, and managers. Glossaries includes a key to abbreviations and terms used on the site. A couple of fun features are Birthdays , where you can select a date and see all the players born on that date; and the Baseball Travel Guide , where you can enter a city or zip code and receive information on nearby baseball attractions. This site also contains a list of baseball statistics books, and related links. Searchable only by player name. http://www.baseball-reference.com/ Topics: Baseball, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Oct 10, 2000 BaseballLibrary.com
This collection includes thousands of biographies from the 1990 book "The Ballplayers," plus the full text of the 1991 book "The Baseball Chronology," "a day-by-day account of baseball history." Both are being updated online. In addition to the material from the two books, find articles on baseball teams, people, and events; an "Anyday in BB History" feature; historical background on the rules of the game; suggested reading and online resources; and more. http://www.baseballlibrary.com/ Topics: Baseball, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Sep 4, 2009 Baseball's Steroid Hearings
Collection of stories from National Public Radio (NPR) on the hearings by U.S. Congress in 2005 "about use of performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball. Current and past stars testify, including former home run king Mark McGwire. Lawmakers also hear from Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig and from parents of children who died after using steroids." http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4540278 Topics: Baseball, Drugs & Medications by Type, Sports, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated May 1, 2006 Billings Mustangs
The Billings Mustangs baseball team, located in Billings, Montana, is the Cincinnati Reds single-A affiliate in the Pioneer Baseball League. The site includes a team roster, game schedule, photos, brief team history, and more. http://www.billingsmustangs.com Topics: Baseball, Photograph Collections, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Feb 1, 2007 Business of Baseball
The purpose of this site is "to provide research tools for those wishing to learn more about the business end of professional baseball." Features a section on relocation and expansion candidates, salaries and payroll, franchise valuation information, historical documents (such as the 1905 World Series rules and regulations and 2005 steroid hearings statements), interviews, and more. Searchable. From the Society for American Baseball Research. http://bob.sabrwebs.com/ Topics: Baseball, Drugs & Medications by Type, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Jun 12, 2007 Celebrating 100 Years of Baseball: A Century in the Making
This 2003 Spokesman-Review feature recounts the history of the Spokane [Washington state] Indians, once called the best minor league team of the second half of the 20th century by Baseball America. The club's 100-year history is told here primarily through a collection of personal memories and oral histories. The multimedia section features audio clips and a slide show of historical photographs. Most content from a Spokesman-Review copy editor's unpublished history of the team. http://spokesmanreview.com/indians/ Topics: Baseball Last updated Feb 11, 2004 Columbus Catfish
The Columbus Catfish baseball team, from Columbus, Georgia, is the Los Angeles Dodgers' class A affiliate in the South Atlantic League. The site provides the team roster, team news, a schedule, stats, and related information. The homepage includes league standings, upcoming games (home and away), and a poll. http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/index.jsp?sid=t441 Topics: Baseball, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Mar 25, 2007 Cosmic Baseball Association
This is "a baseball league of the imagination. Our focus...is more poetic than athletic...baseball is really a metaphor for the life of the mind...." The players in this fantasy league are from the arts, literature, sports, politics, crime (Al Capone is a player), and just about anywhere. The players and the information about them (and there are some solid facts here) are not always easy to find, but the search is the game. http://www.cosmicbaseball.com/ Topics: Games & Puzzles, Internet, Literature: Fiction, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Feb 22, 2002 Great Falls White Sox
The Great Falls White Sox baseball team, located in Great Falls Montana, is the Chicago White Sox single-A affiliate in the Pioneer Baseball League. The site includes a team roster, game schedule, and photos. http://www.greatfallswhitesox.com Topics: Baseball, Photograph Collections, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Apr 12, 2005 The Great One: Roberto Clemente Walker
Devoted to Puerto-Rican born baseball player, "the first Latin American to enter the Hall of Fame," this site includes photographs, images of related memorabilia, and the right fielder's career statistics. Born Roberto Clemente Walker, he was known throughout his career as Roberto Clemente. Available in English and Spanish. From the Smithsonian National Postal Museum. http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/clemente/ Topics: Baseball, Photograph Collections, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Aug 17, 2009 Historic Baseball
Focusing on its "mission of preserving the history of baseball through stories, profiles and features on players, teams and events," this searchable site includes the Negro and Federal Leagues. Site readers can submit articles of interest. Includes a newsletter links to other websites. From a hobbyist. http://www.historicbaseball.com/ Topics: Baseball, Black Resources, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Apr 5, 2009 Jacksonville Suns
The Jacksonville (Florida) Suns, of the Southern Baseball League, are the AA level affiliate for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Game schedule, history of baseball in Jackson, lots of details on "Current Major Leaguers Who Passed Through Jacksonville" (in Suns In The Show). http://www.jaxsuns.com/ Topics: Baseball, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Feb 1, 2007 JapaneseBaseball.com
This site is "dedicated to discussion of Professional baseball (Pro Yakyu) in Japan." It features statistics, team rosters, schedules, and a list of players back to 1996 with selected biographies. Also includes discussion forums and links to news and related information. Searchable. From an American fan who lives in Japan. http://www.japanesebaseball.com/ Topics: Baseball, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Oct 14, 2004 Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life
This is a rich resource for anyone interested in DiMaggio's accomplishments as a sports figure or his complex personal life (including marriage to Marilyn Monroe). The PBS film of the same name aired in May 2000. The transcript is featured, as well as an essay on what made DiMaggio such a great ballplayer and an excerpt of his autobiography, "Lucky to Be a Yankee." There are also interviews, articles, significant events, and a teacher's guide. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dimaggio/ Topics: Baseball, Nonfiction by Genre, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Apr 21, 2005 Las Vegas 51s
The Las Vegas 51s minor league baseball team, named in honor of the area where UFOs and space aliens allegedly are kept by the U.S. government, are the Triple A affiliate for the Los Angeles Dodgers. The site contains a game schedule, a player roster and statistics, stadium information, and more. http://www.lv51.com/ Topics: Baseball, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Feb 1, 2007 Little League
The official site from Little League Baseball features material for young players, league organizers, and parents. There is baseball news, a history, information about special programs, merchandise, and a growing collection of official manuals. Things specifically not included are links to other sites, chat rooms, and the official rule book for reasons specified at the site in the about section, under "Internet policies." http://www.littleleague.org/ Topics: Baseball, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Apr 11, 2005 Los Angeles Dodgers
National League Western Division baseball team playing in Dodger Stadium at Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles. http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/ Topics: Baseball, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Feb 1, 2007 Love of the Game Productions
Companion site for "Right Off the Bat," a radio program about the history of baseball. Programs air before every Oakland Athletics game in the San Francisco Bay Area. Find articles, commentary, and archived broadcasts from the show, including a section on race in baseball. Registration (free) required for posting and submitting articles. From baseball historian Marty Lurie. http://loveofthegameproductions.com/ Topics: Baseball, Media, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated May 12, 2005 National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
Cooperstown, New York, site dedicated to "collecting, through donation, baseball artifacts, works of art, literature, photographs, memorabilia and related materials which focus on the history of the game over time, its players, and those elected to the Hall of Fame." Visitor information, historical data, online exhibits, and educational resources are featured. http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/ Topics: Baseball, Museums, Museums by Place: United States, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Aug 17, 2009 National Baseball Hall of Fame: Babe Ruth
Fast facts on baseball legend Babe Ruth (George Herman Ruth, also known as "The Bambino" and "The Sultan of Swat"), such as teams, World Series appearances, awards, trivia, and a brief biography. Provides a video clip and links to related pages about this sports icon, including a table comparing numbers of at-bats and home runs for Ruth and Barry Bonds. From the National Baseball Hall of Fame. http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers/detail.jsp?playerId=121578 Topics: Baseball, Notable People Last updated Jul 11, 2007 The Official Site of Major League Baseball
Contains baseball facts, figures, forums, news, statistics, schedules, scoreboards, standings, and more. http://mlb.mlb.com/ Topics: Baseball, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Feb 1, 2007 The Official Site of the Oakland Athletics
The site of this Major League Baseball team from Oakland, California, contains a schedule of games, statistics, a player roster, team news, and more. http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/ Topics: Baseball, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Feb 1, 2007 The Official Website of the Ogden Raptors
The Ogden Raptors minor league baseball team, located in Ogden, Utah, is the Los Angeles Dodgers single-A level affiliate in the Pioneer Baseball League. The site includes a team roster, game schedule, statistics, and more. http://www.ogden-raptors.com Topics: Baseball, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Feb 1, 2007 The Pioneer Baseball League (PBL)
The PBL "is a short-season, professional minor league — with teams in Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming." The league "is classified Rookie Advanced. This makes us a starting place for players beginning their professional careers." The site includes a PBL history, news, club directories, game schedules, statistics, a trivia quiz, photos, fan memories, and more. http://www.pioneerleague.com Topics: Baseball, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Mar 2, 2005 PONY Baseball/Softball
"PONY Baseball and Softball is designed to 'Protect Our Nation's Youth' by providing experiences in youth baseball and softball that will help young people grow into healthier and happier adults." The Web site includes information about regional leagues, tournaments, fundraising, umpires, rules, news, and more. http://www.pony.org/home/default.asp Topics: Baseball, Charity & Nonprofit Resources, Sports, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Oct 12, 2004 Portland Beavers
The Pacific Coast League Portland Beavers are the Triple A affiliate for the San Diego Padres. Features seating chart and history of PGE Park, team and player news, and game schedule. http://www.pgepark.com/ Topics: Baseball Last updated May 8, 2007 Retrosheet Official Webpage
Retrosheet is a project to computerize "play-by-play accounts of as many pre-1984 major league games as possible." The site includes detailed information dating from 1900, including game logs, event files, and box scores. Most of the files are in plain text format designed for use with a word processor or spreadsheet; many are compressed ("zipped"). http://www.retrosheet.org/ Topics: Baseball, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Aug 22, 2002 Salt Lake Stingers
The Salt Lake Stingers are the Triple A affiliate of the Anaheim Angels. This site includes schedules, standings, statistics, a team roster, and a handful of related links. http://www.stingersbaseball.com/ Topics: Baseball, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Feb 9, 2003 San Diego Padres
National League Western Division baseball team. Online commentary by Friar John. http://padres.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=sd Topics: Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Feb 1, 2007 San Francisco Giants
The National League Western Division baseball team was formerly at 3 Com Park (formerly Candlestick Park), but in 2000 moved to a new stadium in China Basin called AT&T Park (formerly Pacific Bell Park). http://giants.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=sf Topics: Baseball, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Feb 1, 2007 Small Ball: A Little League Story
Companion site to a documentary about the journey of an Aptos, California, Little League team to the 2002 Little League World Series. Features facts and figures about Little League, a timeline of Little League history, a bibliography, a home run derby animated game, and questions and answers for Little League players, parents, and coaches. From Penn State Public Broadcasting and the Center for New American Media. http://www.pbs.org/smallball/ Topics: Baseball, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Apr 11, 2005 Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)
This organization aims "to foster the study of baseball, to assist in developing and maintaining the history of the game, [and] to facilitate the dissemination of baseball research." The "Bulletin Online" section offers a research exchange and a monthly listing of new baseball publications. "SABR Online" features syllabi of baseball-themed college courses, a discussion list, and forums. The site includes links to regional chapters, project pages, and member-recommended Web sites. http://www.sabr.org/ Topics: Baseball, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Aug 12, 2003 Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939
A collection of 20 Official Indoor Baseball Guides and 15 Spalding's Official Base Ball Guides, which "featured editorials from baseball writers on the state of the game, statistics, photographs, and analysis of the previous season for all the Major League teams and for many of the so-called minor leagues across the nation." Searchable. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/spalding/ Topics: Baseball, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Oct 16, 2009 Spokane Indians
The site for Spokane's Northwest League baseball team, the Indians, provides schedule, ticket, and merchandise information, news and stats, and information about players, coaches, alumni, and the league. The team is an affiliate of the Texas Rangers. http://www.spokaneindiansbaseball.com/ Topics: Baseball, Sports, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated May 9, 2005 Spring Training: The Official Site of MLB's Cactus and Grapefruit Leagues
News, schedules, results, and other features about Major League Baseball's annual spring training in Arizona and Florida. Features photos, video and audio clips, and stories about players and teams. Archives go back to 2002 Spring Training. From the official site for Major League Baseball (MLB). http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/events/spring_training/ Topics: Baseball Last updated Feb 1, 2007 |
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