It's a safe bet that the most-linked-to site from Batter's Box is the sheer greatness of Sean Forman's Baseball-Reference.com. If you haven't ever seen the site, set aside seven or eight hours, then go spend a minute or two poking around (trust me; the seven or eight hours will disappear quickly).
I know my own pet project, Baseball's Hall of Names literally could not exist without the site we've come to know simply as "BBRef."
BBRef owner Forman recently sent an e-mail to his newsletter subscribers announcing updates to the site in time for Opening Day 2005.
Below is the text of Forman's latest e-mail. The distribution is quite infrequent, perhaps six or seven times a year, but it's always something worth knowing about the site; be sure to sign yourself up.
The Baseball Travel Guide is now up to date with 2005 ballparks and teams.
http://www.bb-ref.com/leaders/
http://www.bb-ref.com/leaders/leaders_32_bat.shtml
Singles and At bats per strikeout have been added to the player, team and league leaderboards.
http://www.bb-ref.com/leaders/1B_career.shtml
http://www.bb-ref.com/leaders/ABpSO_active.shtml
Hall of Famers now have their own statistical register, and more awards have been added to our awards directory, along with information like awards shares and multiple awards won.
http://www.bb-ref.com/awards/HOF_register.shtml
http://www.bb-ref.com/awards/
http://www.bb-ref.com/awards/silver_slugger_al.shtml
Full details of all updates are on our contents page.
http://www.bb-ref.com/about/contents.shtml
Dozens of additional error corrections, small tweaks, medium improvements, and slight changes were made to the site as well. Special thanks to SABR, the Baseball DataBank and the readers who found these errors and make so many good suggestions. I still have literally hundreds of archived e-mails to sift through. Please report any errors that you may find, and they will be corrected as soon as possible. I have high hopes for BR in 2005, so I hope you will check back often.
User support is our primary means of covering the bills and paying the help (just me at the moment). Please consider sponsoring a page or two if you aren't already.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/about/sponsorship.shtml
Thank you for subscribing to the Baseball-Reference.com Newsletter.
Sincerely,
Sean Forman
http://www.Baseball-Reference.com/
A Sports Reference, Inc. Site
Hey Bauxites ... (a) do you sponsor a BBRef page? (b) if not, which page would you like to sponsor and why? (c) what are your favourite sponsorships -- some are pretty wacky!
https://www.battersbox.ca/article.php?story=20050315234637537