Baseball Archive

The Baseball Archive first appeared on the web in July of 1995, making it the oldest and longest running baseball website still in existence.  I founded the website to create a repository for baseball stats and historical information, and that work eventually led to my serving as an editor for Total Baseball: The Official Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball and other well-respected sports reference books.  As we moved into the 21st century, other sites sprung up and surpassed anything I could have imagined.  I stopped updating much of my historical content in the early 2000s, but I’ve decided to keep it here, in case those sites disappear.

I do remain committed to making raw data available, and I’ve continued to make annual updates to the Lahman Database — a free relational database of individual and team statistics that covers the game back to 1871.  A link to versions of that database is below.

I also encourage you to visit and support my efforts at OpenSourceSports.com, a repository for free databases from sports other than baseball.

Links to Baseball Archive content

• Lahman Baseball database
• Gene Carney’s NOTES from the Shadow of Cooperstown
• History
  • A Brief History of Baseball – focusing on labor issues
  • History of Pro Baseball Teams
  • History of MLB Schedules
  • The All American Girls Professional Baseball League
  • The Essential Baseball Library
  • Youngest MLB Player Chronology
• Sabermetrics
• FAQs
• Software / Programs
• Bookstore

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About Sean Lahman

Sean Lahman is an award-winning database journalist and author.  He develops interactive databases and data driven stories for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle and other Gannett newspapers and websites. He’s part of the investigative reporting team and writes a weekly column on patents and innovation. Prior to joining the Democrat and Chronicle, he was a reporter [...]more →