Possibly derived from Rounders or Cricket • First recorded games occurred by 1845 in NYC • Professional baseball started in 1876 and eventually became the MLB which governs baseball today • San Francisco Giants have won 11,194 games since founding in 1883.
Sabermetrics - empirical analysis of baseball statistics • Retrosheet - computerizing the box score of every major league baseball game ever played • Chadwick Baseball Bureau - Clean baseball data • Moneyball -
• Teams don’t always play in the same stadium year after year • Address for team is usually an office building • Stadium names are vague • Imagery is usually poor outside of NA/EU/AUS/JPN/Korea • Wikipedia - but….