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THE HISTORY AND LITERATURE OF BASEBALL

• General Baseball (Links to over 3500 baseball Web Sites)
• Major League Baseball
• Baseball History
• Negro Leagues

• John Skilton's Baseball Links (A list of over 3300 baseball sites organized by category)
• The Best Baseball Info on the Net
• Total Baseball
• The Baseball Page
• The Best of the Web: Baseball

Major League Baseball

• Major League Baseball Site
• Official Rules
• ESPN
• San Francisco Giants
• Oakland Athletics
• Roto News (Fantasy Sports)

Society for American Baseball Research

• Society for American Baseball Research
• The Baseball Biography Project
• Baseball Course Syllabi
• Collegiate Data Base
• The Baseball Index
• Member Research
• Links to Member Pages
• SABR Members also have access to a wide variety of research resources which includes the SABR Encyclopedia and access to ProQuest and Heritage Quest.  You also may participate in SABR-L, a baseball high-level baseball discussion list. 
  If you are a serious baseball researcher, you should belong to SABR.

• National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
• National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (Online Catalogue)
• Negro League Museum
• Center For Negro League Baseball Research
• Library of Congress
  Baseball in the Library of Congress
  Baseball and Jackie Robinson ~ Multiformat ~ 1860-1969
  Baseball Cards ~ 1887-1914
  Baseball Guides and Spalding ~ 1889-1939
  Bibliography of Songs Related to Baseball
• National Archives (Article on holdings)
• Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles   (includes Baseball Magazine and other sports periodicals online)
• Baseball Library.com
• Professional Baseball Archive
• Louisville Slugger Museum
• Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum
• St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame and Museum
• The Sporting News (via Paper of Record)

Player Museums

• Babe Ruth Museum
• The Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center
• Bob Feller Hometown Museum
• Ted Williams Museum and Hitters Hall of Fame
• Ty Cobb Museum
• Cal Ripken Museum
• Nolan Ryan Museum
• BRS Baseball Museum (Jim Bottomley, Red Ruffing, Ray Schalk)
• Enos Slaughter Museum
• Roger Maris Museum
• Honus Wagner Museum
• Wes Westrum Baseball Museum
• Museum of Nebraska Major League History (Grover Cleveland Alexander)
• There are museums (or exhibits in local museums) devoted to Jimmy Foxx in Sudlersville, MD; Johnny Mize at Piedmont College in  Demorest, GA; Tris Speaker in Hubbard, TX; Carl Hubbell in Meeker, OK; Hack Wilson in Martinsburg, WV; Addie Joss in Juneau, WI; and Burleigh Grimes in Clear Lake, WI.  None of them currently have websites. There are museums dedicated to Ichiro Suzuki and Hideki Matsui in Japan.

Timelines

• The Baseball Chronology
• Chronology of Early Bat and Ball Games
• African Americans and Baseball
• Louisville Slugger Museum Chronology
• Baseball Timeline

• Sporting News Baseball Record Book
• Sean Lahman's Baseball Archive
• Baseball America
• The Sporting News
• Baseball Weekly
• Baseball Reference
• Retrosheet
• Major League Baseball Umpires
• Baseball Graphs
• Major League Baseball Attendance
• The Baseball Cube
• Hit Tracker
• Baseball DataBank
• Boxscore Central (Online Box Scores)
• Sports Ticker (Paid Service)

Baseball Photographs, Recordings, and Images

• Library of Congress
• Classic Photos
• Corbis
• American Athletic Foundation Digital Archive
• Leland's.Com

• Doc Lawson's 19th Century Base Ball Prints

• The Rucker Archive

• New York Public Library

• Baseball Researcher

• George Brace Photo Collection

• George Grantham Bain News Collection

• World Series Newsreels

• BaseballRecordings.Com

• Baseball Historian
   

• The Baseball Almanac
• Baseball History on the Web
• Coming to America: Immigrants and Baseball
• National Pastime. Com
• Ballparks of Baseball
• Vintage Baseball Association
• The Deadball Era
• The Girls of Summer
• BaseballLatino.Net
• Dressed to the Nines: A History of Baseball Uniforms
• Sports Artifacts: Vintage Baseball Memorabilia
• Spitball, the Baseball Literary Magazine
• The Unofficial 1927 New York Yankees Home Page
• Japanese Professional Baseball.
• Baseball Guru
• Babe Ruth's "Called Shot"
• Babe Ruth Central
• Legends of the Game (Dead Ball Era)
• Baseball Immortals
• The Baseball Bookshelf
• Baseball Audio Cassettes
• Greg Spira's Baseball Page
• BallParks
• Jackie Robinson's FBI File
• Hello Baseball Fans
• Business of Baseball
• Doug Pappas Baseball Articles
• Baseball Games
• Links to Baseball Related Patents, 1860-1906
• Hothand in Sports
• The Physics of Baseball
• Baseball Fever
• The Dowd Report (On Pete rose and Gambling)
• "Frequently Asked Questions about Pete Rose"
• Jewish Major Leaguers
• Peter Morris (see especially his research guide)