For reinhar01, Year = 1919, BFP should be equal to 1, not 4. BTW, it's mathematically impossible to face 4 batters without either giving up a run or recording...
Well, hold the phone. Even though MLB.COM, Baseballpropectus, etc. show 1 BFP, I thought I'd use PROQUEST to check the boxscores, and what do you know,...
I posted this question on the Retrosheet group, and Craig Burley posted it on the SABR-L list. So far, one report that game accounts said Reinhart hit a...
There are two potential mistakes which have recently come to my attention. 1) In the postseason stats for the 1979 world series, the pitching stats for both...
... I have Voyles with 25 in my 2003 PBP database. He gave up unearned runs only twice, on September 23 and September 27. On September 23, Voyles allowed an...
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Folks, I may be looking at an outdated version of Master.csv, with almost no biographical data for the field managers and HOF members who never played in the...
Last week I spoke with the widow of Carden Gillenwater (gilleca01). Mr. Gillenwater passed away in 2001. I don't have his exact death date, but he died in...
According to http://www.historicbaseball.com/players/g/gillenwater_carden.html he passed away on May 10, 2000 in Largo, Fla. -- Dave Kent On Mon, 30 Aug 2004...
... Not only spaces but abbreviations, eg "North Brookfield", "N. Brookfield" 965 Marty Bergen (I don't know whether we are actively maintaining such data or...
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... I may be looking at an outdated version of Master.csv, with almost no biographical data for the field managers and HOF members who never played in the...
Sean, Sean, Derek, Michael, et al: What is the process to get the 2004 data into BDB? With the number of websites offering data for hitting, pitching, and...
... Give me a bridge of BDB-ProYakyu IDs for all the players on this page: http://www.japanesebaseball.com/players/index.jsp?Year=2004 and I'll have pitching...
Zach, The hardest/longest part is to match the various IDs to the BDB ID. That's where the bulk of the work comes from. So, if your source is MLB (through ...
... Before anyone undertakes this work, there are some legal issues that generally prevent us from incorporating player ID's from commercial sources. Also,...
... I want to echo Sean here. There are mechanisms already in place and the and 2004 stats should come out fairly quickly. It will be covered. Also, I have...
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... Ouch on the license. I was under the impression that the BDB License was BSD-like. If this data is incorporated into the BDB, does this license take...
Michael: Not sure what "BSD-like" means?! I don't THINK there is a problem here - as long as I give permission for this data to be incorporated into the BDB,...
... BSD stands for "Berkley System Distribution" and is most often referred to as the license that a team of researchers at the University of California...
Thanks Michael. I'll keep investigating, but for now I'm going to leave as is. Sean and/or Sean really haven't incorporated this data yet, so it's a moot point...
Why do the 1890 and 1891 A.A. Baltimore Orioles have a different teamID (BL3) than the A.A. Baltimore Orioles from 1882 to 1889 (BL2)? select name, teamid,...
I believe it's because the original team of AA Baltimore Orioles dropped out of the AA after the 1889 season. In the 1890 season, when the Brooklyn Gladiators...