February 25, 2009
Christmas is Over
Major League Baseball will no longer publish a hard copy of the Red and Green books. For those of you who never came across one of these, they were one of the staples of baseball researchers before computerized stats came along. For me in the 1990s, they were my source for who was a rookie and how much service time each player had earned.
They are, however, obsolete. All this information is available online, and is updated daily. I can't argue with the decision.
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Wow... I can't even imagine a time when research was done without the internet playing some part in it. Makes you feel old, huh?
Jesse: it wasn't that long ago! Part of my responsibility when I interned with the Orioles in 2003 was researching unique happenings from previous seasons in the Red and Green books and handwritten scorebooks! That was barely 6 years ago.
