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Baseball Frivolities and Fun Stuff

I get lots of great ideas, both from readers (the best ones) and while I should be thinking about something else. This area lists many of those ideas. These are little features that make the site a little more fun to use.

Oracle of Baseball - find a chain of teammates between any two players in MLB history.

English to Spanish and Spanish to English Baseball Dictionary
Dr. Ralph Insinga has graciously allowed us to provide his dictionary to our users.

Players Born on this Day or any day for that matter.

Players who Died on this Day or any day.

Team Game Log Reports
A series of tools that slice and dice game-by-game results from 1901 to the present in a wide variety of ways.

Multi-franchise or Multi-team Players
Find all the players who played for some combination of teams and franchises. Can also request a list of players who played exclusively for those teams or franchises.

Pitchers with 20 or More Losses
Pitchers who have lost 20 games in a season.

Mitchell Report Players
Players who were mentioned in Baseball's Mitchell Report.

Cups of Coffee
Players who played in only one major league game.

Trading Deadline Deals from the Last 20 Years
See all of the trades for the two months around the trading deadline (July 1-Aug. 31).

Non-pitchers who Pitched
Position players who appeared for a game or more as a pitcher. I used five times as many non-pitching games as pitching games for the cutoff.

Handedness Report
Find the percentage of players handedness over a period of years.

Place of Birth Report
Find the percentage of players from a country or state over a period of years.

Players by Place of Birth

Random Page, be randomly sent to a player, team or league page.

Player Linking Tool -- Insert your text and every player name will be linked to their corresponding baseball-reference.com page.

Just a little sidebar with various links BR links
If you use a browser with sidebars there should be a way to add this one.
Click here to add to your Netscape and Mozilla tabs

Just a google gadget with various links BR links
If you use google homepage this can be added to your google homepage.

  • Baseball-Reference.com Mozilla Firefox Search Plugin
    • This adds Baseball-Reference.com to your list of search engines in the firefox and mozilla browsers.

    Search Bookmarklet

    Bookmarklets are a really nice little feature in JavaScript. Below is a link with javascript inside. This link will allow you to select a name and then immediately look up their BR.com page.

    For Internet Explorer users

    I'm not an IE user, but I've gotten this to work on IE. To add this to your browser you should just be able to drag this to the list of links on your toolbar.

    BR Search

    For Netscape Users

    In Netscape, you can right-click and select "add bookmark for link". This will then create a bookmark in your bookmark list. It is on my personal toolbar (in Netscape), so it is always visible.

    BR.com Search (does not open new window)

    This link will work similarly, but it will open a new browser window when clicked on. (No toolbar appears for the new browser window.)

    BR.com Search (opens new window)

    For Safari Users

    BR.com Search (opens in same window)

    BR.com Search (opens new window)

    All users

    To test, select (highlight) one of the player names below:

    Ted Williams
    Mike Cameron
    Raul Mondesi
    Mark McGuire (sic)

    Now click on your bookmarklet you created the step before.

    If you and I did things right, you should be sent through BR.com's search engine and to that player's stat page. If nothing is selected, you are sent to the player search page where you can type in your own search.

    Note that if you have a google (or another) pop-up blocker installed you will need to use CTRL-click to get it to work.

    Got an idea?