March 16, 2007
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The Baseball Zealot points out the Paper of Record site, which has The Sporting News back to 1886! I remember taking trips to the library to pour over microfilm looking at old boxscores. This site might make that trip obsolete!
Update: I was looking to see if I could find anything on Gehrig and grand slams, and came across this page from January 1934 on MLB hitting records. Times change. The "long hit" is given much more prominence than the home run, and doubles are called two baggers.
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Great Site, fabulous... the older (pre 1920) stuff is hard to read at times. But a membership shows you why it wa the Bible of Baseball.
Great Baseball Cartoons as well, most before the 1960's
Thanks for the information. I'll be able to waste most of my afternoon on this!