25 years of a great resource
Friday marked the 25th anniversary of the launch of Baseball Reference, quite simply one of the great sports websites to ever exist, an indispensable research tool and source of seemingly unlimited information about baseball.
Think about how you accessed baseball information 25 years ago. It was much harder to come by, at least in the instantaneous fashion to which we have become accustomed. Baseball Reference has been at the forefront of easing our access to information.
They’ve branched out to several other sports as well, launching Sports Reference, and are essential companions to our enjoyment of games.
Kudos to Sean Forman at the team at Sports Reference. Thank you for a quarter century of stellar work.
Here’s a short video of the history of the look of the site:
25 years ago today, Baseball Reference was created.
We’ve had a few different looks over the years, but our mission has stayed the same—to make baseball stats accessible for everyone. ⚾
— Baseball Reference (@baseball-reference.com) 2025-02-07T16:07:52.060Z
Links
- Bill Plunkett at Orange County Register continued his series of Dodgers spring training previews by looking at the beefed-up bullpen.
- Fabian Ardaya at The Athletic wrote something on every player in camp (or expected to be in camp), split into separate articles on the pitchers and the position players.
- I enjoyed this peek behind closed doors into MLB’s salary arbitration process on Pablo Torre Finds Out. Former Marlins president David Samson and players Dan Uggla and Cody Ross detailed their arbitration hearings, first in 2009 for Uggla and 2010 for Ross.
- Jen Ramos Eisen at The Objective wrote about the tendency of media to dehumanize players, especially international players. “Many of the times signees are first referenced in American media, it’s often with commodifying language at best, humanizing the teams employing them instead of the players themselves,” they wrote.