All of the content stored in these archives is the result of my personal research, except where noted. For general reference, I rely primarily on the following sources to cross-check facts and data:

• Total Baseball, 5th edition
• The Sporting News Baseball Guide, 1960-present
• Baseball America's Almanac, 1984-present

For other reference sources I might have consulted, see my list of recommended books.

I have tried to be very concious of attributing original works to their authors and avoiding copyright infringements. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you feel that any of my content is used improperly or is not properly attributed. All web pages contained at this site that are not my original work (or contain portions that originate from another source) are clearly noted as such at the beginning of each document. They are also listed here, for reference.

Contributors

The Strike FAQ is written and maintained by David Grabiner, who also supplied several articles on sabermetrics.

wrote the annaul RC/27 reports and a description of that method

created the Similarity Scores tool.

Bob Collins created the Brock 2 spreadsheets.

Lineup Optimizer code written by Stephen Z. Stein

The Baseball Library and Franchise Histories were written by Dan Nichols.

Information on the Mexican League was written by Juan Fernando Rivera Pernia.

Descriptions of Rounders and Townball were written by Chris Monser.

MLB Team directory was originally compiled by .

The Bill James primer is excerpted from his 1988 Abstract.

Data Sources

Player salary data was provided courtesy of Doug Pappas, chairman of the SABR Business of Baseball Committee.

Annual team finanical data comes from Financial World magazine.

MLB schedules were created using George Ferguson's online program, "Sports Schedules as You Like 'Em".

Free-agent data was compiled by Steve Lane and .

Some statistics were verified using data from Doug Steele's web site.

Most of the data on the Japanese Baseball page was provided by Masataka Kagesawa, Masahiro Kawasaki, Itaru Ichikawa, and Kosuke Waitka.

Pages linked from the Baseball and Congress page come from the US Congress and its online web-site.

Some data comes from the USA Today, STATS, and the Associated Press.