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Baseball’s most exciting play — The Hardball Times

Posted by Sean Forman on June 2, 2009

Baseball’s most exciting play -- The Hardball Times

Nice article using our home run encyclopedia.

When setting up the HR Encyclopedia, I was using pbp data for 1954 on and HR log data pre-1954 (essentially). Unfortunately, I didn't realize that the pbp data was missing a good number of inside-the-park notations, but the HR log had them. This didn't affect everyone, but did affect some players.

So I've had to go back and get those noted appropriately. Dan Wilson was one such player affected and he now has the correct 2 IPHR's for his career. Everybody should be up to snuff tomorrow when the site regenerates. Active guys may still have an incorrect number.

Sorry, Chris.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 at 4:48 pm and is filed under Home Runs, Media Mentions. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “Baseball’s most exciting play — The Hardball Times”

  1. kingturtle Says:
    June 2nd, 2009 at 9:12 pm

    thanks for the link to the article. i too enjoy doing such research by hand, and not by automated computer. i mean, that's how i started. me, graph paper, the baseball encyclopedia and an AM transistor radio.

    here is another nice link about inside-the-parkers: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/recbooks/rb_isphr.shtml

  2. Chris J. Says:
    June 3rd, 2009 at 4:47 pm

    No big deal Sean. Thanks for the link.

    And thanks for the link, Kingturtle. Looks like I got almost everyone - missed Cy Seymour, though. It's actually a better job than I expected.

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