Research Links

Baseball Statistics Reference Sites

• Baseball-Reference.com
  Major League Statistics and Information
• Retrosheet
  Providing all play-by-play game accounts in major-league history.
• National Baseball Hall of Fame
  Official site for the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown
• Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)
  Organization that focuses on the research, preservation, and dissemination of the history and record of baseball.
• Dummy Hoy Homeplate
  Site providing information on Dummy Hoy’s Career

Newspaper Sites (subscription required)

• Newspaper Archive
  Articles from historical newspapers around the U.S. and the world
• Paper of Record
  Hundreds of newspapers including “The Sporting News” from 1888-2003.  Access to this database is available through a membership to SABR. (see above)
• The Toronto Star
  Searchable collections from 1894-present
• Proquest Historical Database
  Only available through subscribing libraries or on a pay-per-article basis, includes Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and others.
• GenealogyBank.com
  Over 300 years of fully-searchable historical newspapers printed in small towns and big cities throughout the U.S.

Newspaper Sites (free)

• LA84 Foundation
  A number of online periodicals including “The Sporting Life” 1888-1917 and Baseball Magazine 1908-1920
• The New York Times
  Searchable articles from 1851-1922
• Fulton History
  A series of newspapers from across New York State
• Brooklyn Daily Eagle
  Digital Collection of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from 1841-1902
• The Silent Worker
  A popular national newspaper among the deaf population of the U.S. during the end of the 1890’s through the end of the first quarter of the 20th century.
• Google News Archive Search
  Provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. In addition to helping you search, News archive search can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods.
• Library of Congress – Chronicling America
  View newspaper pages from 1860-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
• Missouri Digital Heritage
  A collection of newspapers from the state of Missouri
• Northern New York Historical Papers
  Early newspapers from Northern New York State
• Colorado Historic Newspapers
  A variety of papers before 1923
• Barrington Review
  Barrington, Illinois Newspaper 1914-1930
• Winona State University
  A collection of early papers from Winona, Minnesota 1860-1946
• Atlantic County Library System
  A collection of papers from Atlantic County, New Jersey, 1860-1923
• Cranbury Public Library
  Digitized collection of New Jersey paper from 1886-1926
• Suffolk Historic Newspapers
  Multiple papers from Suffolk County, NY
• Washington State
  Collection of early papers from Washington State