B-R Cross Links to SR Sites
Posted by Sean Forman on December 16, 2009
Danny Ainge Statistics and History - Baseball-Reference.com
As you hopefully are aware, Baseball-Reference.com is part of a family of Sports Reference sites. All of them very good, very complete and well worth checking out. We have now created a rosetta stone matching players and coaches across all of the sites, so Danny Ainge's page, linked above, now has a link to his Basketball-Reference page, and Ricky Williams' minor league page now links to his Pro-Football-Reference page.
December 16th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Let us know if you come across a player for whom we are missing a link.
December 16th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
How did I not know that Williams played minor league baseball?
December 16th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Hmmmm...
baseball: Height: 6' 0" , Weight: 215 lb.
football: Height: 5-10 Weight: 226 lbs.
Usually people don't get shorter until they reach age 70 or 80. 🙂
December 16th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Random question...how come the player pages at pro-football-reference and basketball-reference have jersey numbers, but the ones here at baseball-reference don't?
December 16th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Pretty cool stuff.
The question now becomes, is there an easy place to see everyone who is on more than one site? Seems like something that could easily be added to the Frivolities section, maybe...
Great stuff, anyhow, Sean!
December 16th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
I'll add that to the list of to do things.
Re: uniforms. We just haven't gotten a source for historical baseball jerseys.
December 16th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Josh Booty, if he ever played in an NFL game.
December 17th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
At least three NFL quarterbacks active in the 1980s/1990s time frame played minor league baseball. John Elway is probably the best known. Jay Schroeder may also be fairly well known as a notorious Blue Jays draft bust. The third one is Bubby Brister. Like Schroeder, he went into baseball out of high school and then went to college to be a quarterback after his baseball career didn't pan out. If I recall correctly, he was in the Detroit Tigers' farm system.
December 19th, 2009 at 5:33 am
Quan Cosby (thanks, Wikipedia).