Baseball Statistics, Commentary, & Analysis

Resources in this category:

Baseball Almanac
http://baseball-almanac.com/

An interactive online encyclopedia, which bills itself "The ‘Official’ Baseball History Site. The content is both deep and well organized.

The Baseball Archive
http://www.baseball1.com/

Comprehensive baseball site includes a searchable player encyclopedia, lots of statistics, essays, and a minor league player database.

Baseball Box Scores
http://www.baseball-boxscores.com/

Baseball Almanac provides nearly 200 box scores for significant achievements in selected categories, as well as opportunity to request the box score of any game.

Baseball Cube
http://www.sports-wired.com/default2.asp

An interactive encyclopedia with statistics, player profiles, minor league and college statistics, draft information and more.

Baseball-reference.com
http://www.baseball-reference.com/

Comprehensive site on baseball history offers statistics on every player in major league history.

Baseball Think Factory
http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/btf/

BTF provides original analysis and commentary to educate those beginning the journey to baseball enlightenment, as well as aggregating some of the best material otherwise available on the web.

Diamond Angle
http://www.thediamondangle.com/

This site features interviews and commentary, as well as a 'Stars in Their Time' tribute to great players who have, or have not, been elected to the Hall of Fame.

Graphical History of Baseball
http://home.istar.ca/~mbein/baseball.html

While this data is all available from other sources, a visual representation of statistics can make it much easier to understand how the game has changed. This shows, for instance, that home runs per game have increased five-fold since 1900—in a way anyone can understand.

MLB Center : It's a Whole New Ballgame
http://www.mlbcenter.com/

An online forum for articles and discussion groups, this site requires that users register (free of charge) before posting material or comments.

Netshrine- A Celebration of Baseball
http://www.netshrine.com/

The Gallery is another Hall of Fame celebration, while the Forums offer some of the best baseball discussion on the web.

Retrosheet
http://www.retrosheet.org/

Founded in 1989 to computerize play by play accounts of as many pre-1984 major league games as possible, Retrosheet offers boxscores for every major league game from 1972 through 2002 and basic data for every major league game since 1871.