SABR OFFERS 2010 EMERALD GUIDE AS FREE DOWNLOAD

From SABR’s Susan Petrone: The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) is giving away The Emerald Guide to Baseball 2010 to the world baseball community. Developed in the spirit of the classic guides published by the Sporting News, Spalding, and Reach, The Emerald Guide includes all pitching, hitting, and fielding statistics for every player active in the major and minor leagues during 2009. Other features include team histories, up-to-date team contact information and schedules, an extensive Year in Review essay, team day-by-day game logs, All-Star Game box score and play-by play, post-season box scores and play-by-play, transactions, debuts, first-year player draft, and major and minor league necrology.

A bound version is available via print on demand at Lulu.com for $24.95. The electronic version of the Guide contains all of the pages of the printed version.

“SABR is a leader in providing historical and current information about America’s game—baseball,” says SABR Executive Director John Zajc. “We are also part of a larger movement toward open source sharing of information. Giving away The Emerald Guide as a free download is in line with that philosophy.” SABR will delve further into its commitment to open source sharing with the SABR Encyclopedia, an online wiki-style encyclopedia that is currently in development and scheduled to go live to the public later this year.

The Emerald Guide editors include Gary Gillette and Pete Palmer, who co-edited previous versions of the Emerald Guide and were co-editors of the ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia.

The Emerald Guide to Baseball 2010 is available as a free PDF download from http://sabr.org.

Last year Justin Murphy discussed the Emerald Guide with Gary Gillette.  Click here to read that interview.