Downloadable Baseball Statistics

[fathedX]

I mentioned this guy's work before, but he had to take his site down for a while because he chose the unfortunate name of 'Baseball Almanac' which is already copyrighted.  He has changed the name to 'National Pastime Almanac' and it is again available for free.  It is a zip file that holds an executable database with all the baseball stats for all time.  It is all searchable in any way you can think of.  If you want to know who hit the most home runs between 1973 and 1986, you can find it easily (it's Mike Schmidt with 494, Dave Kingman had 407).  This is addicting stuff for all you baseball nuts. 

http://hometown.aol.com/ronlg/index.html

EDIT:  By the way, it's 8MB, so use a fast connection!

[Stock]

Good stuff.  Thanks!
It is nice to have an alternative to trying to get nontraditional statistics from MLB.com or espn.com.

[Nails]

Thanks for following up on this, fatheadx.  Very cool.

[fathedX]

wumpst

I just got an e-mail from the creator of this database that 2005 statistics are now included.  If you like having all the baseball statistics on hand for any wacky question that comes up, this is the database to download.  The link above still works to get to his main page. 

[Dryden]

www.baseball1.com for the lahman database, which contains pretty much all of the data from baseball-reference.com in MS Access mdb format (or excel format, which sucks).

[fathedX]

Bump once again.

This gentleman e-mailed me to let me know that the stats are now updated with 2006 info.  This database is cool, but I don't end up using it much.  Still it's handy if you want to know who hit the most triples in the 60s or something.

http://hometown.aol.com/ronlg/index.html