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October 21, 2005
World Series Fever!
Baseball fans love statistics and history. Just as there are many books on baseball and new titles published each year, there are many baseball Web sites covering all aspects of the game. Here is just a sample.
We will start, of course, with the home team. The Chicago White Sox Web site has just about everything you want to know about the team and includes a Kids section.
If you want to scrutinize the opposition for their weak points, take a look at the Houston Astros Web Site.
For more information on the Series, look at Major League Baseball's World Series site or the Baseball Almanac's section on the World Series - The Fall Classic.
The Ballparks of Baseball site has photos and statistics on the parks.
New to the game of baseball? Want to learn more? Take a look at the following Web sites.
Baseball Basics - Part of Major League Baseball's site.
Mom's Guide to Baseball - Part of the Mom's Guide to Sports site.
Baseball Scorecard includes a tutorial on keeping score, a glossary of terms and links to other baseball sites.
Looking for the history of the game? Give these sites a look and gather some trivia to stump your friends between innings.
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum's Baseball History section includes "This Day in Baseball History."
The Baseball Library bills itself as "The Stories Behind the Stats," and includes information for various books and articles.
Historic Baseball publishes histories of players, teams and leagues.
Into statistics? Check out the following sites:
At Baseball-Reference.com statistics are browsable by player or team.
The Baseball Almanac claims to have "more than 110,000 pages of baseball history, more than 330,000 fast facts," and biographies of every Major League player (through completion of the 2004 season) in history."
And if you are still looking for more, take a look at John Skilton's Baseball Links which says it has "the Web's most comprehensive collection of links to baseball resources."
Go Sox!
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Posted by hinsdalereference at October 21, 2005 11:41 AM