In the nearly 25 years since Sean Forman founded Baseball-Reference while finishing his PhD at the University of Iowa, the website has become the site of record for professional baseball. It has ...

In baseball, statistics offer the comfort of order and certainty, though their greatest power is as a proxy for legacy. Mere symbols on a page — 61*, 714, .406 — make it possible to reach back in time ...

Was there ever a team sport better-suited for statistical modeling than baseball? The heart of the game involves one pitcher vs. one batter at a time, allowing for a dizzying array of individual ...

In a milestone decision decades in the making, Major League Baseball announced Tuesday that it is now incorporating statistics of Negro Leagues that operated in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s into its ...

Robert Siegel speaks with Allen Barra whose book, Clearing the Bases: The Greatest Baseball Debates of the Last Century, uses elaborate statistics to illuminate some of the perennial arguments over ...

Major League Baseball on Wednesday announced that records of Negro Leagues players will be included in the game's official statistics, in a "long overdue recognition." Before Jackie Robinson broke ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — After a year that many would consider a nightmare, a full season of baseball is back. That means a dream opportunity for a Purdue University sophomore who’s developed quite a ...

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Negro League statistics from 1920-48 have been integrated into MLB's record book. Josh Gibson is now MLB’s all-time leader in batting average, slugging percentage and OPS. Babe Ruth has long been ...

Houston’s Justin Verlander is leading the majors in victories and earned-run average. Kyle Cave earned his way into the major leagues for the first time this season, putting himself in the thick of ...

In this 1942 photo, Kansas City Monarchs pitcher Satchel Paige warms up at Yankee Stadium before a game against the New York Cuban Stars. (Matty Zimmerman/AP) Perspective by Kevin B. Blackistone A ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — In the days before Baseball Reference featured every stat imaginable of the National Pastime, a Fort Wayne man pioneered keeping records of the sport through a company he ...