The information on APBA baseball cards and the APBA’s yellow lineup sheet only gives you a limited amount of information.
Fortunately, with the explosion of SABRmetrics, there is more information now available than anyone can digest. For replayers, the info available is great for helping to create guidelines for player usage.
The two most helpful information resources I have found are:
The website Baseball-Reference.com. Baseball-Reference.com lists the stats for every team, by season. For example, if you go to the 1917 Chicago White Sox, scroll down past Team Batting and Team Pitching to Team Fielding. Voila! Every player is listed by positions played and how many games they played at that position. It’s a great resource tool.
Another great resource is The Sports Encyclopedia Baseball 2007, David S. Neft, Richard M. Cohen and Michael L. Neft, published by St. Martin’s Griffin, New York. As far as I can ascertain, 2007 is the last year it was published, when it was overtaken by what is now available on the Web. The book is still available on Amazon.
If you want a hard copy or quick reference for basic data, The Sports Encyclopedia Baseball 2007 is a terrific resource, listing each player and the number games at which they appeared at each position.
Next: A sample player usage guideline
Big fan of B-R. I use them every time I play a replay game. Not only does the site have boxscores but has starting lineups (down below on the same page).
With the help of Retrosheet (http://www.retrosheet.org/), they have really revolutionized how replayers approach the game.
thanks, Rod!