How Retrosheet Saved Baseball History

You have favorite baseball memories, games that live forever in your mind, ones you can still see perfectly. But could you recall every play? The exact sequence that made those moments possible? Now you can. Every play. Every game. Every season since 1871. For the first time in baseball history, it all exists in one place, and it's free for anyone to use. All thanks to Retrosheet.

In 1989, Dave Smith had a problem. He'd gathered 7,000 games in his Delaware basement, but over 130,000 more wer...