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nYou have favorite baseball memories, games that live forever in your mind, ones you can still see perfectly. But could you recall every play? The exact sequence that made those moments possible? Now you can. Every play. Every game. Every season since 1871. For the first time in baseball history, it all exists in one place, and its free for anyone to use. All thanks to Retrosheet.n nn nIn 1989, Dave Smith had a problem. Hed gathered 7,000 games in his Delaware basement, but over 130,000 more were scattered across the country: moldering in team archives, stacked in sportswriters attics, at risk of being thrown away forever. No funding. No institutional support. Just one fan with an impossible vision: save baseballs history before it disappeared.What happened next changed how we understand the game. Smith recruited a volunteer army that tracked down scorebooks, decoded Allan Roths revolutionary scoresheets, and digitized millions of plays. All that while refusing to charge a dime. Their work now powers your favorite websites like Baseball Reference and Fangraphs.n nn nThis is the story of Retrosheet: how baseballs greatest preservation challenge became its most democratic achievement, and connected you to every game ever played.n
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