NYDailyNews Article on B-R
Posted by Sean Forman on July 20, 2009
Prof. builds game's most influential Web site: baseball-reference.com
A profile of myself and the site in the NY Daily News from over the weekend.
Posted by Sean Forman on July 20, 2009
Prof. builds game's most influential Web site: baseball-reference.com
A profile of myself and the site in the NY Daily News from over the weekend.
July 20th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Great read, Sean. I am glad that you took the leap of faith to make this your full time gig back in 2006. I know I am not alone. You deserve all the accolades you have received. Keep up the good work.
David
July 20th, 2009 at 10:58 am
It's funny how they made you turn your monitor towards the camera.
I'm just curious--who else here has been using this site since it was first created? I discovered it within its first few months of operations so many years ago.
July 20th, 2009 at 11:05 am
Notice the dual monitor setup. 🙂
July 20th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Very nice article. You turned down "set for life" and "would have allowed him to retire". Thanks for staying dedicated to creating a great site.
July 20th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Is that really Sean?
That's what he looks like, eh?
July 20th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
I'm pretty sure I've been using B-R almost since it began.
July 20th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
sean, congrats! great article. you're up there with jimmy wales in my book. you came along just in time. my old baseball encyclopedias were worn out from page flipping.
i definitely remember using this site the year bonds got his 73 dingers. thank you for maintaining this site's integrity, simplicity and beauty.
oliver
July 20th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
The year Bonds got 73 dingers? B-R.com was already a maturing teenager, at least in Internet-years, by then.
July 20th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
I'd been using the site for about a year when I mentioned it as one with a great user experience in an Information Architecture class back in spring 2001. Funny, I'd mention it again today if I were taking the class again.
This is simply the best site on the Internet. Thanks, Sean.
July 20th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
that's cool, this place is great for stat heads, congrats on that...
without knowing the answers I'm going to take a wild stab at the 3 questions: 4, 92, .268
July 27th, 2009 at 7:40 am
The article mentions the birth of your first child. Poor kid, doomed to grow up with two math professors as parents. So much for the excuse "my parents couldn't help me - they didn't understand it either" when not doing his/her math homework...
Btw, my son is doomed to the same fate, as both my wife and I are math professors, too.