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Kenny Washington also played some baseball in the California Winter League. The evidence we have says he was pretty good! www.retrosheet.org/NegroLeagues...

Even if you love baseball history, you probably don’t know exactly How Retrosheet Saved Baseball History. Whether you love the stats, games, or stories, my new book has something for everyone who loves the game. To learn more, visit www.retrosheet-book.com and follow @retrosheet.bsky.social

Small update to post below: 2025 @retrosheet.bsky.social data has now been loaded, as well as people-register from github.com/chadwickbureau

One of reasons I've pushed for Retrosheet Database is so folks out there can start sharing their work

As simple example, its very straightforward to do this:

Retrosheet is pleased to announce its second semi-annual release of 2025, which includes play-by-play files for the 1910 and 2025 seasons, box-score files for the 1898 season, and a deep dive into the 1935 Negro League season.

www.retrosheet.org/fall2025rele...

Some years ago, Larry Granillo wrote a few articles providing some stats about Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang’s baseball fun. Sadly the articles are gone but the Internet Archive saved some starting here: web.archive.org/web/20100115...

So, to be clear, no force out or any other out ever since at least 1911 where 386 was a sequence involved!

Calling all interested in helping Retrosheet continue our work!

If you’ve ever struggled with extracting data from our event files, Retrosheet has made pre-processed versions (in CSV format) available covering all games for which Retrosheet has compiled information from 1899 - 2024. Check them out here: www.retrosheet.org/downloads/cs...

Retrosheet’s latest (Summer 2025) release contains complete play-by-play for the 1911 and 1913 AL/NL seasons, box scores for the 1899 and 1900 NL, the 1936 Negro National League season, and updates to more than 1,000 other game accounts. See here for details:

www.retrosheet.org/summer2025re...

Retrosheet is pleased to announce its semi-annual summer 2025 release. Too much great stuff to fit in a skeet. See here for details: www.retrosheet.org/summer2025re...

Enjoy!

July 17, 1990 newspaper photo showing fan interference with Barfield’s long fly ball to left field during 7/16/1990 game.

Here’s a newspaper photo which confirms Cliff’s memory.

It will be fixed with our next release, which should also fix Baseball Reference. Thank you for checking and pointing it out!

Retrosheet is pleased to announce an update to its Negro Leagues section: www.retrosheet.org/NegroLeagues...

This update includes two new seasons: 1937 and 1938 (the first two Negro American League seasons). So far, Retrosheet has collected information on 7,061 games involving Negro League teams.

Retrosheet is pleased to offer fully parsed play-by-play files for download, by season or as a single massive file which contains all 15,852,865 lines of play-by-play data that Retrosheet has collected to date. Enjoy! Happy New Year!

retrosheet.org/downloads/pl...

Retrosheet is very proud to announce that we now have available on our website the official daily totals from 1882-1980, covering six of the seven major leagues. Learn more and download them here:

www.retrosheet.org/officialtota...

Retrosheet is pleased to announce its second semi-annual release of 2024. This release includes full play-by-play for the 1914 and 2024 seasons as well as several additional updates. See here for details: retrosheet.org/fall2024rele...

Grandma's Scorebook The legacy of Minnie Lee Olges and her incredible creation of the most precious baseball scorecards and much more from 1973-1991.

Retrosheet wants to thank Mike Murphy @grandmasscorebook.bsky.social and his delightful grandmother (who you can read more about at www.grandmasscorebook.com) for providing several Reds games that Retrosheet needed as we work toward a complete play-by-play record of baseball history.

RetroList groups.io Group Forum for Retrosheet volunteers and users of Retrosheet data to discuss issues related to the organization and specifically the website, www.retrosheet.org ( http://www.retrosheet.org )

If you want to engage with other Retrosheet volunteers, we have a mailing list for that: groups.io/g/RetroList and like everything Retrosheet, it’s free.

Now that the BlueSky is bringing over lots of baseball people, let Retrosheet help you survive until Spring Training.

Join the #ClydeSukeforthChapter on Tuesday, November 12 for the 2024 Doug Pappas Award winning presentation by @retrosheet.bsky.social founder David Smith entitled "Where Did The 24 Minutes Go?" It's the #SABR Can't Miss Event of the week!

Sign up here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

If you’re lonely for baseball, Retrosheet can help. We have lots of games recorded (both audio and video) that can be captured as new Retrosheet data. PM me here if you’d like to learn more about how you can help!

40000 days ago (April 22, 1915), Pittsburgh's Bill Hinchman hits an inside-the-park home run to the center field flagpole, earning himself (and future Pirates who hit a home run in Pittsburgh) 25 pounds of radium fertilizer.

(Hat tip to @retrosheet.bsky.social 's Strange and Unusual Plays list)

Was this researched using Retrosheet data by any chance?

I've mentioned it before, but they deserve another mention because they rule: These daily recaps are just screenshots from retrosheet.org.

A lot of what I do is semi-original and involves building on existing research, but these are just screenshots.

Thanks for everything, @retrosheet.bsky.social

Check your scorecards! Retrosheet needs help with just a few games from 1971-1996. Help us help you! Details here:

www.retrosheet.org/wanted/want1...

Retrosheet is pleased to announce its 2024 Summer Release. Details can be found here: www.retrosheet.org/summer2024re...

Highlights include the completion of the 1915 and 1916 seasons, box-score files available for download for all AL/NL/FL games from 1901 - 2023, and improved fielding data.

Retrosheet is pleased to announce its latest release of Negro Leagues data.
This release includes the 1939 and 1949 seasons. In addition, Retrosheet has begun to add deduced play-by-play accounts beginning with the 1939, 1948, and 1949 seasons. www.retrosheet.org/NegroLeagues...

Retrosheet is pleased to announce our second semi-annual release of 2023. Highlights of this release include full play-by-play data for two entirely new seasons - 1912 and 2023 - as well as two seasons for which some data had previously been released - 1917 and 1918. Full details at the link.