Retrosheet Home Page

Keeping Score
Retrosheet was founded in 1989 for the purpose of computerizing play-by-play accounts of as many pre-1984 major league games as possible. Learn more about the organization.

Retrosheet's Most Wanted
Not criminals, but games. Lists by year of all games we are missing from 1947-73 Can you help?

What's New

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]
6/23/2008: New suspended game added. See [Noteworthy events/Suspended Games]
5/31/2008: Triple Play data updated for new one. See [Noteworthy events/Triple Plays]
5/20/2008: New no-hitter. See [No-hitters & cycles]
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]
4/15/2008: Firsts for Nationals Park. See [Ballpark Firsts]
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]
12/10/2007: New Release with 1956 and 2007 data added. See [Boxscores'n'more]
12/10/2007: New event files now available for 1956 and 2007. See [Data Downloads]

Coming Sooner or Later
Post-season event files

Frames: We have eliminated them from the website with the June, 2008 release. They have been replaced by a drop down menu at the top of each page consistent with current web site design standards.

Click here for information about the use of Retrosheet data

Send comments and suggestions to: Mark Pankin:
Due to abuse by spammers, retro1@pankin.com no longer receives e-mail. The new address adds 1 to the number. Please use it and enter it in your e-mail program since mailto links are harvested by spamming creeps. Sorry for any inconvenience. Please start your subject line with "Retrosheet: ".