It’s official: I’m working with Scott Simkus and Sean Forman to bring Negro league and Cuban league statistics to Baseball-Reference.com. There is a small story in today’s USA Today about it, which doesn’t seem to be online yet; but Scott has the text at his blog. We’re aiming at an April launch, although I don’t think that’s set in stone yet.
We won’t be presenting the entire history of the Negro leagues or Cuban baseball at one fell swoop; we’ll be doing it incrementally, the way I have over the years here. Soon Pete Hill, Juan Padrón, Irvin Brooks, Carlos Morán, Bullet Rogan, and everyone else I've written about here in the past four years, and many more, will have their own, genuine bb-ref pages, with actual stats and the best biographical information we can come up with.
We won’t be presenting the entire history of the Negro leagues or Cuban baseball at one fell swoop; we’ll be doing it incrementally, the way I have over the years here. Soon Pete Hill, Juan Padrón, Irvin Brooks, Carlos Morán, Bullet Rogan, and everyone else I've written about here in the past four years, and many more, will have their own, genuine bb-ref pages, with actual stats and the best biographical information we can come up with.
Check back here, or at Scott’s blog, or at the baseball-reference blog for updates and further information.
UPDATE 1:18 p.m. Here’s the online version of the USA Today article (which is better than the print version, actually).
Any update on the progress of these stats being put on baseball-reference.com?
Even if there isn't much progress, can we get a comment of where things stand at this point?
Posted by: John | July 20, 2011 at 07:35 PM
Sean has nearly all of the first installment, excepting only a revised & expanded version of the 1922 NNL, which I'm currently working on. He thinks that they will probably get the stats posted by Opening Day or so. That's probably a goal, rather than a firm deadline.
Posted by: Gary Ashwill | January 21, 2011 at 10:42 AM
Is there any other word on the progress of these stats being put on baseball-reference.com? Even if there isn't much progress, can we get a comment of where things stand at this point?
Thanks
Posted by: David | January 14, 2011 at 03:37 PM
Great news! Having the data available at bbref will open it up to thousands of fans who would never search out a dead-tree version. I look forward to hearing more.
Posted by: Brent | February 16, 2010 at 07:34 PM
This is great news. Well done and thank-you!
Posted by: Sean | February 16, 2010 at 07:21 PM