But that hobby has a name and a legacy: Retrosheet. An indispensable source for researchers, writers and fans alike, Retrosheet laid the foundation for today’s most popular baseball statistics sites. ...

His knowledge of music, baseball and literature was outstanding. If one baseball organization wasn't enough, Tom joined Retrosheet in 1997 as a member and in 2004 became a board member.

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The league ended its protracted negotiation with Seamheads this spring and now intends to use Retrosheet’s nascent database — a work in progress that Retrosheet president Tom Thress said ...

Winter for this guy has little to do with a functioning CBA. Winter is for research. Winter is for reading. Winter is for Retrosheet. What is Retrosheet? Retrosheet is an organization that collects ...

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The baseball-statistics community lost one of its best on Sunday. Retrosheet researcher, Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) member and longtime Nationals official scorer David Vincent died ...

This is a fun read from Tom Ruane of Retrosheet, a look at some quirky events in major league history that are difficult for software programs to understand and thus display accurate box scores.

However, for quite some time, I’ve been thinking about this: if one could get a good approximation of the framing numbers just using Retrosheet pitch sequences, 20 years of catcher framing could be ...

Flash back to January 1987. Walk Like an Egyptian is at the top of the pop charts. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has coasted past 2,000. John Elway has broken Cleveland’s heart for the very first ...