The 2010 British baseball season has ended on a very disappointing note after Aspi Dimitrov resigned from his position as Southern Senior League Commissioner today. Dimitrov took on the role two years ago on top of his commitments with Herts Baseball Club.  He has been instrumental in taking some of the progressive thinking displayed at Herts and applying it more widely within the British Baseball [...]

Baseball is a wonderful sport (I’m guessing you wouldn’t be here if you hadn’t worked that out already) and whether your introduction was via Five, ESPN America/NASN or through catching a game during a visit to the States, the chances are good that you were hooked pretty quickly. As with any new sport, you need to learn the basic ideas of the game itself and there are lots of rules [...]

I guess this should surprise me, but it doesn’t. The sports gossip website Deadspin publishes a letter from baseball commissioner Bud Selig in which he declares that he believes Abner Doubleday invented baseball. It’s a myth that was created out of thin air for a specific purpose… justifying the construction of a baseball hall of fame in Cooperstown, an otherwise un-noteworthy crossroads [...]

For almost 40 years, the Society for American Baseball Research has painstakingly unearthed and saluted the accomplishments of long-forgotten contributors to the game. Now it will honor the stars of its own: by creating, in effect, the Baseball Historian Hall of Fame.SABR announced on Monday the inaugural class of winners of its new Henry Chadwick Award -– (fittingly) nine people whose work [...]

The Baseball Archive first appeared on the web in July of 1995, making it the oldest and longest running baseball website still in existence.  I founded the website to create a repository for baseball stats and historical information, and that work eventually led to my serving as an editor for Total Baseball: The Official Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball and other well-respected sports reference [...]