Baseball statistics

As with many sports, and perhaps even more so, statistics are very important to baseball. A seemingly intrinsic part of the game is the keeping of statistics on the achievements of the players.

References

• Official Baseball Rules, Section 10 - Scoring from http://www.mlb.com
• Find statistics for all of major league history at http://www.Baseball-Reference.com/
• The Baseball Cube Statistical Database for Major League, Minor League and College baseball.
• Retrosheet Historical boxscore information
• Baseball Almanac
• The Society for American Baseball Research