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Retrosheet notes

For those who care, I managed to help Dave Smith over at retrosheet.org get the redirects working for the player pages.

Old links used to look like this:

http://retrosheet.org/boxesetc/Pkoufs101.htm
http://retrosheet.org/boxesetc/Pmaddg002.htm
http://retrosheet.org/boxesetc/Pmurtm001.htm

and now they look like this:

http://retrosheet.org/boxesetc/K/Pkoufs101.htm
http://retrosheet.org/boxesetc/M/Pmaddg002.htm
http://retrosheet.org/boxesetc/M/Pmurtm001.htm

An interesting thing I learned - there are no players, managers, or umpires to ever have a last name that started with X. Every other letter is represented, however.

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The letter X.
... there was, in the early 1990's, a minor league SS named Joe Xavier. He wasn't much of a prospect, but did manage to get to Triple-A for the Brewers and A's.

Wish one of them had given him a cup of coffee callup, just ONE game so he'd have his name listed!

In any case, THANK YOU for helping out with Retrosheet. Thanks to you and Eric Simon, a SB Nation blogger, Retrosheet's links will always be forwarded to the right place.

"[BCB] is much better than... well, everything." -- gravedigger, January 21, 2007

by Al on Feb 16, 2007 2:21 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

I bow to you
You are awesome.  
"Looking for good signs is a good sign of delusion." - Me

by gravedigger on Feb 16, 2007 5:35 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

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