{"product_id":"how-retrosheet-saved-baseball-history-9798348596514","title":"How Retrosheet Saved Baseball History","description":"\u003cp\u003eYou have favorite baseball memories, games that live forever in your mind, ones you can still see perfectly. But could you recall every play? The exact sequence that made those moments possible? Now you can. Every play. Every game. Every season since 1871. For the first time in baseball history, it all exists in one place, and it's free for anyone to use. All thanks to Retrosheet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1989, Dave Smith had a problem. He'd gathered 7,000 games in his Delaware basement, but over 130,000 more were scattered across the country: moldering in team archives, stacked in sportswriters' attics, at risk of being thrown away forever. No funding. No institutional support. Just one fan with an impossible vision: save baseball's history before it disappeared.What happened next changed how we understand the game. Smith recruited a volunteer army that tracked down scorebooks, decoded Allan Roth's revolutionary scoresheets, and digitized millions of plays. All that while refusing to charge a dime. Their work now powers your favorite websites like Baseball Reference and Fangraphs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMLB's official historian John Thorn believes \"Retrosheet is the greatest human endeavor since someone convinced 40,000 Jews to build a pyramid.\" Now, for the first time, learn how baseball's greatest preservation challenge became its most democratic achievement, and connected you to every game ever played.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jay Wigley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wiglesius Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.52d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798348596514\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWigley, Jay:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jay Wigley first discovered Retrosheet in 1996 and wondered how such a thing was even possible. Now he knows. His earliest baseball memory is of the scoreboard animations at the Astrodome in the summer of 1972. Jay lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, with his wife and kids and dog and four cats, the only baseball fan among them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Jay Wigley \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47834185990301,"sku":"9798348596514","price":39.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_fcc005af-468a-4330-877f-a4015ed06616.jpg?v=1776145716","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/how-retrosheet-saved-baseball-history-9798348596514","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}