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<big>'''Welcome to the SABR Encyclopedia of Baseball'''</big>
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<big>'''Welcome to the development site for the SABR Baseball Encyclopedia project'''</big>
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Currently featuring entries for {{#ask: [[person-name-last::+]] | format=count}} people, {{#ask: [[league-key-sabr::+]] | format=count}} league-seasons, {{#ask: [[team-key-sabr::+]] | format=count}} team-seasons, and {{#ask: [[park-name::+]] | format=count}} ballparks.
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Currently featuring {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles on the history of baseball, including articles about {{PAGESINCATEGORY:People}} people, {{#ask: [[league-key-sabr::+]] | format=count}} league-seasons, {{#ask: [[team-key-sabr::+]] | format=count}} team-seasons, and {{#ask: [[park-name::+]] | format=count}} ballparks.
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! style="background-color: #A7D2C5;" | Featured Project: [[Spread of baseball project|Spread of baseball]]
 
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| style="padding: 7px; text-align:center;" | [[File:American national game of base ball-1866-Currier and Ives.jpg|230px|The American national game of base ball, by Currier and Ives, 1866]]
 
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| style="padding: 7px;" | SABR's '''Origins Committee''' is taking the lead in documenting early games of baseball and its antecedents around the world.
 
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If you're curious about the earliest history of the modern game of baseball, please visit [http://protoball.org/Pre-pro_Baseball Protoball]. This is an exciting emerging area in baseball research, and there is much still to be learned.  You can help by contributing research on the earliest baseball in your area.
 
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You can explore the project now at [[Protoball.org]].
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Welcome! New to the '''SABR Encyclopedia'''?  Get oriented with [http://www.screencast.com/t/OGRhZGU0OGYt the welcome screencast].
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* [[:Category:People|People]]
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** By role in baseball:
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To get started, you can '''look up a person by typing their name (either full name or surname only) in the search box at left, and hit enter'''. So, typing "Babe Ruth" (without the quotes) will find you the Bambino, while "Ruth" alone will give you all people in the Encyclopedia with the last name Ruth.
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*** [[:Category:Scouts|Scouts]]
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*** [[:Category:Umpires|Umpires]]
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The long-run goal of the Encyclopedia is to be the first stop to learn more about any baseball-related topic.  The term "encyclopedia" in sports has become synonymous with a tome of tables with statistical data.  General-knowledge encyclopedias, however, focus on prose narrative and often avoid tabulation of quantitative information.  The SABR Encyclopedia will bridge this gap by recognizing that statistics are central to the culture of baseball, but that at the same time baseball is much more than just statistics.  Here you will find, either on the site or via links, biographies, source citations, interviews, photographs, and other resources intended to help broaden and deepen the reader's knowledge about any baseball topic.
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*** [[:Category:Team Executives|Team Executives]]
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*** [[:Category:League Executives|League Executives]]
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*** [[:Category:Hall of Famers|Hall of Famers]]; [[:Category:PCL Hall of Famers|PCL Hall of Famers]]
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** In other sports: [[:Category:College athletes|College athletes]], [[:Category:Pro football players|Pro football players]], [[:Category:Pro basketball players|Pro basketball players]], [[:Category:Boxers|Boxers]], [[:Category:Olympians|Olympians]]
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** Other occupations in life: [[:Category:Actors|Actors]], [[:Category:Authors|Authors]], [[:Category:Veterans|Veterans]]
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** Necrology: [[Deaths in 2008]]; [[Deaths in 2009]]
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* [[:Category:Statistics|Statistical metrics]]
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* Years: [[2009]]{{cdot}} [[2008]]{{cdot}} [[2007]]{{cdot}} {{cdot}} {{cdot}}[[1900]] {{cdot}} {{cdot}} {{cdot}}[[1871]]
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* Leagues
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** [[:Category:Professional Leagues|Professional Leagues]]
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** [[:Category:Professional League Seasons|Professional League Seasons]]
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** [[:Category:Summer Collegiate Leagues|Summer Collegiate Leagues]]
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** [[:Category:Summer Collegiate League Seasons|Summer Collegiate League Seasons]]
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* [[:Category:Ballparks|Ballparks]]
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** [[:Category:Major League Ballparks|Major League Ballparks]]
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** [[:Category:Ballpark disambiguation pages|Ballpark disambiguation pages]]
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* [[:Category:Places|Places]] (see [[Bryan, Texas]] for a stub proposal for organizing information by city, and [[Cleveland, Ohio]] for how this might look for a large Major League city)
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* Colleges: [[:Category:Colleges in Ohio|Ohio]] An experiment with Rick Benner's college history files.
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* [[Triple play of 2000-05-31]] - Chuck Rosciam's Draft of a template for triple plays
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If you would like to get involved in building the Encyclopedia, here are some starting points:
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* [[Help:Contents|Help]]: Documentation on editing pages, editorial policy, and practices
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* [[Help:Introduction to editing in the Encyclopedia|Introduction to editing]] &ndash; Information about the editing process and editorial review (text or screencast video).
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* [[SABR Encyclopedia:Job Jar]]: Looking for ways to help move the project forward in your spare time, without a long-term commitment? The Job Jar lists helpful tasks which can be accomplished in seconds or minutes.
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* Projects:
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* [[SABR Encyclopedia:Projects]]: Larger projects in progress, or in need of someone to launch or take over.
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** [[Help:Writing about a person|Short bios]] &ndash; Brief narratives about players; a non-technical research project good for those who know some players well.
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* [[SABR Encyclopedia:Design issues]]: Conceptual issues arising in designing and organizing the information on hundreds of thousands of pages.
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** [[Help:Adding pictures to articles|Pictures]] &ndash; Uploading pictures and connecting them with their subjects; a mildly technical project good for those who like pictorial research.
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* [[SABR Encyclopedia:Known issues]]: Technical and organizational problems in the Encyclopedia that are known to the design team.
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* Other things to know:
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* [[Draft main page]]: Development page to replace this main page.
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** [[Help:Contents|Help]] &ndash; Index of all help pages (this link is at the left of every page)
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** [[SABR Encyclopedia:Known issues|Known Issues]] &ndash; Technical and organizational problems in the Encyclopedia that are known to the design team.
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