Welcome to Retrosheet
Retrosheet was founded in 1989 for the purpose of computerizing play-by-play accounts of as many pre-1984 major league games as possible. Retrosheet's work has expanded considerably from its original inception while retaining the same core focus: major-league games. Read more about our organization and our history here.
Retrosheet's goal today is to provide as much information as possible about every baseball game played in major-league history. The results of our work can be explored through the menu items above. An overview of the game data we have available is summarized below. To return to Retrosheet's home page (i.e., this page), simply click the Retrosheet bat from any page.
What's New
- 1/3/2025: Supplemental Retrosheet release, including new Negro League seasons (1937 and 1938) and improved options for data downloads.
- 12/24/2024: History of MLB Rules compiled by Stew Thornley. See here for details.
- 12/23/2024: Official Daily Statistics from 1882-1980 for six different major leagues are now available for download. Details of the compilation are here.
- 12/3/2024: Retrosheet's second semi-annual release. See here for details.
Retrosheet's Game Collection
As of our most recent release, Retrosheet has compiled the following game data.
- Complete play-by-play data for all AL and NL seasons for 1912 and from 1914 - 2024 as well as the 1914 and 1915 Federal League.
Some of these accounts are deduced from newspaper stories and box scores. Some games are deduced for the following seasons: 1914 - 1959, 1962 - 1968.
- Play-by-play data have also been released for most games for the 1913 season.
- Box-score data have been compiled for the 1871, 1872, and 1874 NA seasons and the 1901 - 2024 AL, NL, and FL (1914-15) seasons.
- Negro League data have been compiled for the 1937 - 1949 seasons. In addition, Negro League data have been compiled for several hundred notable games played prior to 1937.
- Download all of Retrosheet's traditional data (event files, box-score files, game logs, etc.) here. (322Mb zip file)
- Download a set of .csv files providing daily logs for teams and players as well as fully parsed play-by-play data here.
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