The Records
Streaks, milestones, and the numbers with asterisk-shaped shadows.
The record book and the eras that wrote it — baseball's history, sourced.
Baseball's history, kept honestly
Records, eras, and the stories behind the numbers — from the dead-ball game to the pitch clock, with sources named.
Platform
The archive
The Eras
Dead ball, integration, expansion, steroids — how each rewrote the book.
The Stories
What the statistics were quietly recording while history happened.
Insights
From the blog
Ranking Table
100 Ballparks Compared: Design and Spectator Trade-offs
Seating intimacy averages 0.37/2 for Multipurpose, versus 1.04 for Traditional and 1.09 for Modern venues.
Feature
Shibe Park: Baseball’s First Steel-and-Concrete Palace
The history of Shibe Park, from its 1909 opening and Athletics dynasties to Negro League games, the spite fence and its final Phillies season.
Feature
Squeeze Bunt: How Baseball’s Riskiest Sacrifice Works
A squeeze bunt tries to score a runner from third. Here is how safety and suicide squeezes differ, how they are scored and how the play evolved.