Welcome to Retrosheet
Retrosheet was founded in 1989 for the purpose of computerizing play-by-play accounts of as many pre-1984 major league games as possible. Retrosheet's work has expanded considerably from its original inception while retaining the same core focus: major-league games. Read more about our organization and our history here.

Retrosheet's goal today is to provide as much information as possible about every baseball game played in major-league history. The results of our work can be explored through the menu items above. An overview of the game data we have available is summarized below. To return to Retrosheet's home page (i.e., this page), simply click the Retrosheet bat from any page.

What's New

• 9/17/2024: A few dozen instances of non-pitchers on the mound prior to 1911 have been added to Retrosheet's list. Thanks to Bruce Fleming for this work.


• 9/10/2024: Several updates, including Charlie Pavitt's Sabermetric Bibliography, Bill Deane's collection of Hidden Ball Tricks, as well as updates to Batting out of Turn and Retrosheet Data users.


• 8/11/2024: New research paper from Dave Smith: Where did the 24 Minutes Go?.


• 7/28/2024: New set of data downloads. Daily logs for players, teams, et al., as well as parsed play-by-play data are now available for download as .csv files. See here for details.


• 7/21/2024: Retrosheet's annual summer release. See here for details.

• Complete play-by-play data for all AL and NL seasons for 1912 and from 1915 - 2023 as well as the 1915 Federal League.
  

  Some of these accounts are deduced from newspaper stories and box scores. Some games are deduced for the following seasons: 1915 - 1959, 1962 - 1968.

• Play-by-play data have also been released for most games for the 1913 and 1914 seasons.


• Box-score data have been compiled for the 1871, 1872, and 1874 NA seasons and the 1901 - 2023 AL, NL, and FL (1914-15) seasons.


• Negro League data have been compiled for the 1939 - 1949 seasons. In addition, Negro League data have been compiled for several hundred notable games played prior to 1939.


• Download all of Retrosheet's traditional data (event files, box-score files, game logs, etc.) here. (343Mb zip file)


• Download a set of .csv files providing daily logs for teams and players as well as fully parsed play-by-play data here. (1.01Gb zip file)

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