It’s official: I’m working with Scott Simkus and Sean Forman to bring Negro league and Cuban league statistics to Baseball-Reference.com. There is a small story in today’s USA Today about it, which doesn’t seem to be online yet; but Scott has the text at his blog. We’re aiming at an April launch, although I don’t think that’s set in stone yet.
We won’t be presenting the entire history of the Negro leagues or Cuban baseball at one fell swoop; we’ll be doing it incrementally, the way I have over the years here. Soon Pete Hill, Juan Padrón, Irvin Brooks, Carlos Morán, Bullet Rogan, and everyone else I've written about here in the past four years, and many more, will have their own, genuine bb-ref pages, with actual stats and the best biographical information we can come up with.
Check back here, or at Scott’s blog, or at the baseball-reference blog for updates and further information.
UPDATE 1:18 p.m. Here’s the online version of the USA Today article (which is better than the print version, actually).
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