Baseball 365

Baseball 365 provides a snapshot history of baseball one day at a time.  Click on any date below and view births, deaths, transactions, events, and other trivial tidbits for each day of the calendar year.  

Below the table is a list of sources used for each “Baseball History for {Date}…” page.

Baseball History by Date:

January – 01 February – 01 March – 01
January – 02 February – 02 March – 02
January – 03 February – 03 March – 03
January – 04 February – 04 March – 04
January – 05 February – 05 March – 05
January – 06 February – 06 March – 06
January – 07 February – 07 March – 07
January – 08 February – 08 March – 08
January – 09 February – 09 March – 09
January – 10 February – 10 March – 10
January – 11 February – 11 March – 11
January – 12 February – 12 March – 12
January – 13 February – 13 March – 13
January – 14 February – 14 March – 14
January – 15 February – 15 March – 15
January – 16 February – 16 March – 16
January – 17 February – 17 March – 17
January – 18 February – 18 March – 18
January – 19 February – 19 March – 19
January – 20 February – 20 March – 20
January – 21 February – 21 March – 21
January – 22 February – 22 March – 22
January – 23 February – 23 March – 23
January – 24 February – 24 March – 24
January – 25 February – 25 March – 25
January – 26 February – 26 March – 26
January – 27 February – 27 March – 27
January – 28 February – 28 March – 28
January – 29 February – 29 March – 29
January – 30 March – 30
January – 31 March – 31
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April – 01 May – 01 June – 01
April – 02 May – 02 June – 02
April – 03 May – 03 June – 03
April – 04 May – 04 June – 04
April – 05 May – 05 June – 05
April – 06 May – 06 June – 06
April – 07 May – 07 June – 07
April – 08 May – 08 June – 08
April – 09 May – 09 June – 09
April – 10 May – 10 June – 10
April – 11 May – 11 June – 11
April – 12 May – 12 June – 12
April – 13 May – 13 June – 13
April – 14 May – 14 June – 14
April – 15 May – 15 June – 15
April – 16 May – 16 June – 16
April – 17 May – 17 June – 17
April – 18 May – 18 June – 18
April – 19 May – 19 June – 19
April – 20 May – 20 June – 20
April – 21 May – 21 June – 21
April – 22 May – 22 June – 22
April – 23 May – 23 June – 23
April – 24 May – 24 June – 24
April – 25 May – 25 June – 25
April – 26 May – 26 June – 26
April – 27 May – 27 June – 27
April – 28 May – 28 June – 28
April – 29 May – 29 June – 29
April – 30 May – 30 June – 30
May – 31
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July – 01 August – 01 September – 01
July – 02 August – 02 September – 02
July – 03 August – 03 September – 03
July – 04 August – 04 September – 04
July – 05 August – 05 September – 05
July – 06 August – 06 September – 06
July – 07 August – 07 September – 07
July – 08 August – 08 September – 08
July – 09 August – 09 September – 09
July – 10 August – 10 September – 10
July – 11 August – 11 September – 11
July – 12 August – 12 September – 12
July – 13 August – 13 September – 13
July – 14 August – 14 September – 14
July – 15 August – 15 September – 15
July – 16 August – 16 September – 16
July – 17 August – 17 September – 17
July – 18 August – 18 September – 18
July – 19 August – 19 September – 19
July – 20 August – 20 September – 20
July – 21 August – 21 September – 21
July – 22 August – 22 September – 22
July – 23 August – 23 September – 23
July – 24 August – 24 September – 24
July – 25 August – 25 September – 25
July – 26 August – 26 September – 26
July – 27 August – 27 September – 27
July – 28 August – 28 September – 28
July – 29 August – 29 September – 29
July – 30 August – 30 September – 30
July – 31 August – 31
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October – 01 November – 01 December – 01
October – 02 November – 02 December – 02
October – 03 November – 03 December – 03
October – 04 November – 04 December – 04
October – 05 November – 05 December – 05
October – 06 November – 06 December – 06
October – 07 November – 07 December – 07
October – 08 November – 08 December – 08
October – 09 November – 09 December – 09
October – 10 November – 10 December – 10
October – 11 November – 11 December – 11
October – 12 November – 12 December – 12
October – 13 November – 13 December – 13
October – 14 November – 14 December – 14
October – 15 November – 15 December – 15
October – 16 November – 16 December – 16
October – 17 November – 17 December – 17
October – 18 November – 18 December – 18
October – 19 November – 19 December – 19
October – 20 November – 20 December – 20
October – 21 November – 21 December – 21
October – 22 November – 22 December – 22
October – 23 November – 23 December – 23
October – 24 November – 24 December – 24
October – 25 November – 25 December – 25
October – 26 November – 26 December – 26
October – 27 November – 27 December – 27
October – 28 November – 28 December – 28
October – 29 November – 29 December – 29
October – 30 November – 30 December – 30
October – 31 December – 31

NOTES ABOUT SOURCES:

For lists of people who were born or died on any date, I wrote queries against the Lahman Database, which is built on top of data managed by Retrosheet, I believe.  I’m a huge fan of this relational database as it gets many projects started.  During the season, I may look at Baseball-Reference.com to see if anyone was missed – Lahman’s database comes out once a year – so at some points during a season I can’t live just by the database…  (I still love that DB – always will.)

Many of the quick summaries are mine – written off the top of my head – but may include data from two books in my collection and I usually say that in the summary:

Baseball Players of the 1950s (Rich Marazzi and Len Fiorito)

Major League Baseball Profiles (1871 to 1900)  (Edited by David Nemec – two volumes).

For specific biographies (either listed on the page or on those players on the PLAYERS table), I have included specific resources used to write those essays.  Every once in a while, you may see a picture or quote for a birthday player – and when you do those should be cited with the source.

For events and transactions data, I use lists found on Baseball-Reference.com, NationalPastime.com or Retrosheet.org.  Other details are usually dragged off of a newspaper whenever possible, and if I use the newspaper it is cited specifically.  Essentially “news stuff” comes from NationalPastime.com, transactions come from Baseball-Reference.com, and game details likely come from Retrosheet.org.  If I use more than that, I’ll let you know on that page.

When I first started writing certain essays and biographies, I didn’t necessarily cite sources.  That’s my fault.  However, there are only two or three of these (Dooley Womack might have been the first of these essays and I know I didn’t source it, though most of the articles came out of The Sporting News).  The rest are completely cited unless I admit that I am summarizing something and plan to cite it when I write a fuller summary or detailed essay.

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