Boston Red Sox
Being a Sox fan...
I consider myself a member of Red Sox Nation since 1990,
or to be precise, since game 4 of the ALCS vs Oakland.
After many years of suffering, we were rewarded for our faith
with championships in 2004 and 2007.
Because I'm living in Europe, I obviously have no chance
to attend games regularly.
But fortunately, there are other ways to follow the Sox:
ESPN SportsZone
I use for game results, recaps, standings and news. They also
provide regular columns from some good writers, including
my favourite columnist Rob Neyer.
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The Red Sox
mailing list, currently administrated by
Keith Woolner
, gives
the unique opportunity to learn the opinions of a number
of diehard BoSox fans, some of which are also great 'statheads'.
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Then there's
DIEHARD, the fan magazine for Red Sox fans, which is mailed
monthly. I own an overseas suscription to it.
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This
mail order site
distributes videos of MLB games (as well as other sports).
So I got to see for example game 6 of the '75 series, game 6
of the '86 series, Pedro's 17k-one hitter at Yankee Stadium in
September of '99 and games 4 and 5 of the '99 ALDS vs Cleveland.
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And of course there's
MLB TV which I subscribe to. Now, if time permits, I'm able to watch every game live or
with a few hours delay.
Red Sox Links
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There is the
official Red Sox website, provided by the club itself.
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The Boston
Globe has a Red Sox section.
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The Providence
Journal also features regular Red Sox columns.
- Some current or former
players have pages dedicated to them, for example
Carl 'Yaz' Yastrzemski and
Morgan Burkhart.
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Boston
Dirt Dogs has become my favourite Red Sox site in the last
few month. They feature daily updates for results, box scores, columns
and much more. The site's a shrine to 'dirt dog' players like Trot
Nixon and Brian Daubach.
Baseball Research
In my spare time, I like to do some baseball-related analysis and
research, especially in the statistical aspects of the game. If you're
a 'stathead' too, have a look at my baseball
research page.
Misc baseball Links
Of course, there are unnumbered baseball related sites on the web.
Here I list a few which I came to know and found usefull for one
reason or another:
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The Society
for American Baseball Research, SABR is the holy grail of
all statheads. I'm a member of SABR since early 2001.
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The online section of Total Baseball has up to date stats. See also
my books section for my two cents on
Total Baseball.
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Sean
Lahman's Baseball Archive is a database for all players and
teams of all Major Leagues (including e.g. the Federal League)
since their beginnings. A download version is also available.
I used this to set up a MySQL database with a FORMS/CGI
Interface (so far not available on the web).
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The official MLB site offers e.g. the rules of
baseball.
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Stathead.com
, provided by Keith Woolner is also a rich source of
information for us statheads.
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Baseball America Online: scores, stats, features,
columnists, ..
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Author:Peter Uelkes
Last modified: Mon Feb 14 16:58:25 CET 2011