This feature isn’t incredibly new on Baseball Reference but I’ve been using it so much in my 1966 replay I thought I’d pass it on in case anyone else isn’t aware of it. You may find it useful if you are a replayer especially if you stick to actual lineups.
Many of you know you can find the actual game box scores of pretty much any modern baseball game. Simply find the team and its particular season (example: 1966 Chicago Cubs) then click on “Schedule & Results”.
That brings up the game log for that year for that team. From there, you can click on “boxscore” next to any date and it will bring up the box score for that team.
That comes complete with linescores for batters, pitchers and play-by-play (older teams may not include P-B-P).
This next part is what I’m finding extra helpful in my 1966 replay: Baseball Reference also includes the starting lineup for both teams. While it’s not rocket science to determine this from the official box score, it’s nice when I’m ready to play my game to have it spelled out with all the extraneous players out of the way. When Brando and I played some of my 1966 replay recently, I just brought that day’s page up and were able to copy both lineups down to our score sheets with no problem.
This example comes from the April 17th, 1966 game between the Cubs and the Dodgers which you can find here.
You’ll note that Baseball Reference provides a link at the bottom of each page to its source, Retrosheet. Here is the same box score in Retrosheet.
Again, not a huge feature but one more little thing I like about Baseball Reference and Retrosheet. Even if you’re not using actual lineups, it gives a quick snapshot of who started the game and what kind of lineup the team used.
By the way, on the Schedule & Results page (again, here’s 1966 Cubs as an example) you’ll find some real interesting “Team Win/Loss Splits info”. B-R breaks the team’s season down by home/road, by month, by opponent, and by extra-inning games and blowouts.
