Baseball Almanac

{{Short description|Baseball history and statistics website}}

{{Infobox website

|name = Baseball Almanac

|logo = Baseball-almanac-logo.png

|logo_size = 200px

|logocaption = Baseball Almanac logo from 2006 to 2020

|url = {{URL|www.baseball-almanac.com}}

|commercial = No

|type = Baseball history

|registration = None

|language = English

|founder = Sean Holtz

|content_license = All rights reserved

|launch_date = {{Start date and age|1999|4|24}}{{cite web | url=http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/baseball-almanac.com | title=Baseball-almanac.com WHOIS domain registration | publisher=Network Solutions | access-date=July 16, 2011}}

|current_status = Online

}}

Baseball Almanac is an interactive baseball encyclopedia with over 500,000 pages of baseball facts, research, awards, records, feats, lists, notable quotations, baseball movie ratings, and statistics.{{cite web | url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/ | title=Baseball Almanac - The Official Baseball History Site | publisher=Baseball Almanac | access-date=July 10, 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110708173543/http://www.baseball-almanac.com/| archive-date= 8 July 2011 | url-status= live}}{{cite book | title=Sports Web Encyclopedia | publisher=Kalpaz Publications | author=Ashok, C | year=2005 | location=India | page=86 | isbn=81-7835-336-9 | access-date=August 2, 2010 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j0KX1Wx5iLgC&q=%22baseball+almanac%22&pg=PA86}}{{cite book|last=Kraynak|first=Joe|title=Que's Official Internet Yellow Pages|date=September 2006|publisher=Que Publishing|isbn=0-7897-3408-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HKW6lD4ERUkC&q=%22baseball+almanac%22&pg=PA80|access-date=August 2, 2010|page=80}}{{cite book |last1=Guzzo |first1=Glen |editor1-first=Andrew |editor1-last=Yankech |title=The New Ballgame: Baseball Statistics for the Casual Fan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q2gla3NfznoC&q=%22baseball+almanac%22&pg=PA163 |access-date=August 2, 2010 |year=2007 |publisher=ACTA Sports |location=Skokie, Illinois |isbn=978-0-87946-318-2 |lccn=2006940213 |page=163 }}{{cite book | title=1001 Best Websites for Kids | publisher=Teacher Created Resources | author=Kelly, Deirdre | year=2004 | pages=228 | isbn=0-7439-3461-X | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=keqG9MdgCoYC&q=%22baseball+almanac%22&pg=PA228 | access-date=August 2, 2010}} Its goal is to preserve the history of baseball.

It serves, in turn, as a source for a number of books and publications about baseball, and/or is mentioned by them as a reference, such as [https://books.google.com/books?id=0y0DAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22baseball+almanac%22&pg=PA47 Baseball Digest],{{cite journal | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0y0DAAAAMBAJ&q=%22baseball+almanac%22&pg=PA47 | title=The Heater – Pitchers Who Thrive On The Fastball Are Treated Differently | author=Thompson, Wright | journal=Baseball Digest |date=August 2006 | volume=65 | issue=6 | page=47 | issn=0005-609X | publisher=Lakeside Publishing Company | access-date=August 2, 2010}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=FL6Ecr6SPiwC&dq=%22baseball+almanac%22&pg=PA172 Understanding Sabermetrics: An Introduction to the Science of Baseball Statistics],{{cite book | title=Understanding Sabermetrics: An Introduction to the Science of Baseball Statistics | publisher=McFarland & Company |author1=Costa, Gabriel B. |author2=Huber, Michael R. |author3=Saccoman, John T. | year=2008 | location=Jefferson, North Carolina | isbn=978-0-7864-3388-9 | page=172 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FL6Ecr6SPiwC&q=%22baseball+almanac%22&pg=PA172 | access-date=August 2, 2010}} and [https://archive.org/details/baseballstop100g0000bank/page/155 Baseball's Top 100: The Game's Greatest Records]. Dan Zachofsky described it in [https://books.google.com/books?id=NrbI-p4zCsoC&dq=%22baseball+almanac%22&pg=PA50 Collecting Baseball Memorabilia: A Handbook] as having the most current information regarding members of the Hall of Fame.{{cite book | title=Collecting Baseball Memorabilia: A Handbook | publisher=McFarland & Company |author1=Zachofsky, Dam |author2=Robinson, Brooks | year=2009 | location=Jefferson, North Carolina | isbn=978-0-7864-4166-2 | page=50 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NrbI-p4zCsoC&q=%22baseball+almanac%22&pg=PA50 | access-date=August 2, 2010 | edition=2nd}}{{cite book | title=Baseball's Top 100: The Game's Greatest Records | publisher=Greystone Books | author=Brooks, Kerry | isbn=978-1-55365-507-7 | page=115 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H9xQfgAMVKcC | date=March 30, 2010| access-date = July 16, 2011}}

David Maraniss, author of [https://archive.org/details/clementepassiong00mara/page/385 Clemente, the Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero], described it as "an absolutely reliable and first-rate bountiful source, that supplied accurate schedules and box scores".{{cite book | title=Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero | url=https://archive.org/details/clementepassiong00mara | url-access=registration | publisher=Simon and Schuster | author=Maraniss, David | year=2006 | isbn=1-4165-3410-5 | page=[https://archive.org/details/clementepassiong00mara/page/385 385] }} Glenn Guzo, in [https://books.google.com/books?id=Q2gla3NfznoC&dq=%22baseball+almanac%22&pg=PA163 The New Ballgame: Baseball Statistics for the Casual Fan], described it as having "a rich supply of contemporary and historic information". Film critic Richard Roeper described it in [https://books.google.com/books?id=WLaTsap7hM4C&dq=%22baseball+almanac%22&pg=PA17 Sox and the City: A Fan's Love Affair with the White Sox from the Heartbreak of '67 to the Wizards of Oz] as "one of the beauteous wonders of the Internet".{{cite book | title=Sox and the City: A Fan's Love Affair with the White Sox from the Heartbreak of '67 to the Wizards of Oz | publisher=Chicago Review Press | author=Roeper, Richard | year=2006 | isbn=1-55652-650-4 | page=[https://archive.org/details/soxcity00rich/page/17 17] | url=https://archive.org/details/soxcity00rich | url-access=registration | access-date=August 2, 2010}} Harvey Frommer, Dartmouth College Professor and sports author, said of Baseball Almanac: "Definitive, vast in its reach and scope, Baseball Almanac is a mother lode of facts, figures, anecdotes, quotations and essays focused on the national pastime.... It has been an indispensable research tool for me."