• How Retrosheet Saved Baseball History - Paperback
How Retrosheet Saved Baseball History
How Retrosheet Saved Baseball History

    How Retrosheet Saved Baseball History - Paperback

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    by Jay Wigley (Author)

    You have favorite baseball memories, games that live forever in your mind, ones you can still see perfectly. But could you recall every play? The exact sequence that made those moments possible? Now you can. Every play. Every game. Every season since 1871. For the first time in baseball history, it all exists in one place, and it's free for anyone to use. All thanks to Retrosheet.

    In 1989, Dave Smith had a problem. He'd gathered 7,000 games in his Delaware basement, but over 130,000 more were scattered across the country: moldering in team archives, stacked in sportswriters' attics, at risk of being thrown away forever. No funding. No institutional support. Just one fan with an impossible vision: save baseball's history before it disappeared.What happened next changed how we understand the game. Smith recruited a volunteer army that tracked down scorebooks, decoded Allan Roth's revolutionary scoresheets, and digitized millions of plays. All that while refusing to charge a dime. Their work now powers your favorite websites like Baseball Reference and Fangraphs.

    MLB's official historian John Thorn believes "Retrosheet is the greatest human endeavor since someone convinced 40,000 Jews to build a pyramid." Now, for the first time, learn how baseball's greatest preservation challenge became its most democratic achievement, and connected you to every game ever played.

    Number of Pages: 228
    Dimensions: 0.52 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN
    Publication Date: April 03, 2026
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