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:
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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