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Encylopedias and Statistics

 
Baseball Encyclopedia: The Complete and Definitive Record of Major League Baseball.
  New York : Macmillan, 1993.
  Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC)
  Call Number: GV877.B27 1993
 
 
 Baseball Guide: The Ultimate Baseball Almanac
  St. Louis, MO: Sporting News, 1944+
  Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC)
  Call Number:  GV877.B324
  Year in review of Major League and Minor League Baseball.
 
Baseball register  
   St. Louis, MO: Sporting News, 1961+
  Location:  Social Science Reference Center (SSRC)
  Call Number:  GV862.B43
  Detailed statistics on each Major League player for that year.
  Bjarkman, Peter C.
Diamonds Around the Globe: the Encyclopedia of International Baseball.
  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005. 
  Location:  Social Science Reference Center (SSRC)
  Call Number:  GV862.5 .B43 2005
 
  Bjarkman, Peter C., ed.
Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball Team Histories. American League.
  Westport, Conn.: Meckler, 1991.
  Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC)
  Call Number: GV875 .A1 E53 1990
 
  Bjarkman, Peter C., ed.
Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball Team Histories. National League.
  Westport, Conn.: Meckler, 1991.
  Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC)
  Call Number: GV875 .A3 1991
 
  Dickson, Paul.
 The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary: A Cyclopedic Reference to More Than 7,000 Words, Names, Phrases, and Slang Expressions That Define the Game, Its Heritage, Culture and Variations.
  New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1999.
  Location: General/Humanities Reference Collection, Trustees Reading Room (DR)
  Call Number: GV862.3 .D53 1999
 
 
 ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia
   New York: Stirling, 2005.
  Location:  Social Science Reference Center (SSRC)
  Call Number:   GV877 .E866
  Year-by-year and team-by-team batting and pitching statistics for all major players and teams in major league history (1871-2004).
  Friend, Luke, Don Zminda with John Mehno
The Best Book of Baseball Facts.
  Buffalo, N.Y.: Firefly Books, 2005.
  Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC)
  Call Number: GV877 .F75 2005
  Includes biographical information of players and team histories and chronologies.
 
Hardball Times baseball annual 
  Skokie, IL : ACTA Sports, 2006-2008.  
  Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC) 
  Call Number: GV877 .H275 
 
  Heaphy, Leslie A. and Mel Anthony May.
Encyclopedia of Women and Baseball.
  Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2006.
  Location:  Firestone
  Call Number: GV880.7.E63 2006
 
  Light, Jonathan Fraser.
The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball.
  Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2005.
  Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC)
  Call Number:  GV862.3.L54 2005
 
  Loverro, Thom.
 Encyclopedia of Negro League Baseball.
  New York, NY : Checkmark Books, 2003 .
  Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC)
  Call Number:  GV875 .A1 L68 2003
 
  Neft, David S. and Richard M. Cohen.
 The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball
   24th ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004.
  Location:  Social Science Reference Center (SSRC)
  Call Number: GV877 .S78
 
  Thorn, John, and Peter Palmer with David Reuther, eds.
 Total Baseball.
    2nd ed. New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, 1991.
  Location: General/Humanities Reference Collection, Trustees Reading Room (DR)
  Call Number:  GV863.A1 T68 1991
  Written by a variety of experts, the first part of this book consists of historical information on baseball, from the origins of the farm system to women players.  The second part contains playing and pitching registers, rosters, and annual statistics from the beginning of major league play in 1871, in addition to statistics developed especially for Total Baseball, like the Clutch Hitting Index.
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Baseball Statistics (courtesy of Sean Lahman)

Baseball-Reference.com

Society of American Baseball Research

Baseball Salaries Database

Bballsports.com

Baseball Hall of Fame

Business of Baseball

Major League Baseball

Negro League Baseball Players Association

Bibliographies & Periodicals

 
  The Baseball Bibliography.
   Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2006.
  Location:  Firestone Library
  Call Number:  Z7514.B3 S64 2006
 
 
  Baseball Magazine
   
  Location: ONLINE
  Call Number: http://www.aafla.org/5va/baseballmagazine_frmst.htm
 
 
  Baseball Research Journal.
   Washington, D.C.: Society for American Baseball Research, 1972-1983, 1993-2001.
  Location:  Firestone Library
  Call Number:  GV862 .B43
 
 
  Nine: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture.
    Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press
  Location:  ONLINE
  Call Number:   http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nine/
  Electronic journal with articles in PDF format. Coverage as of Sept. 24, 2001: Vol. 9, no. 1 & 2 (fall 2000/spring 2001)-
More Periodicals

Biographies

  Porter, David L., ed.
   Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Baseball.
   Rev. and expanded ed. 3 vols. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.
  Location:  General/Humanities Reference Collection, Trustees Reading Room (DR)
  Call Number:  GV865.A1 B55 2000
  A revision of the 1987 edition, which can be found in the Firestone stacks, this three-volume dictionary includes 1,450 biographical entries of players, coaches, managers, umpire, and executives who shaped the development of baseball from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present.
  Shatzin, Mike, ed.
  The Ballplayers: Baseball's Ultimate Biographical Reference.
   New York: Arbor House/William Morrow, 1990.
  Location:  Firestone Library
  Call Number:  GV865.A1 B323 1990
 

 

  Skipper, John C.
  A Biographical Dictionary of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
   Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland, 2000
  Location: General/Humanities Reference Collection, Trustees Reading Room (DR)
  Call Number:  GV865.A1 S516 2000
 

 

General Biographical Resources

For biographies of individuals, search the Main Catalog using the Subject Headings: Baseball players-Biography, Baseball-Biography, Baseball players- United States -Biography or Baseball players- United States .