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What's New

8/29/2008: New cycle. See [No-hitters & cycles]
8/15/2008: New four homers in a row. See [Noteworthy events/Four Homers in a Row]
8/14/2008: New courtesy runner. See [Noteworthy events/Courtesy Runners]
7/24/2008: New suspended game added. See [Noteworthy events/Suspended Games]
7/13/2008: National Association no-hitter in 1875. See [No-hitters & cycles]
7/13/2008: Firsts for Nationals Park. See [Ballpark Firsts]
6/25/2008: New Release! New design of website, specifically the elimination of frames and their replacement with a menubar.
6/25/2008: New Release! There are new seasons with play by play detail, including 1999 for the first time along with 1955, 1954 AL (NL previously released), 1953NL and 1921 NL. These changes may be seen in the data download section as well as th e daily box scores and play by play accounts.
6/23/2008: New lost homer. See [Noteworthy events/Lost Homers]
5/31/2008: Triple Play data updated for new one. See [Noteworthy events/Triple Plays]
5/18/2008: New Batting Out of Turn. See [Noteworthy events/Batting Out of Turn]
5/10/2008: Research paper from Michael Round on George Sisler's 1920 season and batting evaluation, updated version. See [Research]
5/8/2008: Research paper from Brendan Bingham on LOB and scoring. See [Research]
4/26/2008: Blue Jays and Rays play a series at Disney World. See [Noteworthy events/Alternate Sites]
4/20/2008: Research paper from Christopher Gehringer on Quality Starts. 1957-2006. See [Research]
4/16/2008: Research paper from Christopher Chestnut on the 363 Double Play with detailed data. See [Research]
3/26/2008: Red Sox and A's open the season in Tokyo. See [Noteworthy events/Alternate Sites]
2/27/2008: Sporting News Umpire Cards, See [Umpires/TSN Cards]

Coming Sooner or Later
Post-season event files

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