User talk:Phatcat68/Archive Wahkeenah

Braves records

Just wondering what your source is. One of the linked websites? Or a book?

I bring this up in part because it might be useful and/or interesting to list each category separately by city, the way it's done in The Sporting News Baseball Record Book. That way it is easy to see who the overall record-holder is for the franchise, and it would also serve those users who want to know the records for just the Boston Braves, for example.

Wahkeenah 17:28, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Hello Wahkeenah!

I am glad that you noticed my edits. I actually do not have "one source" for those records. I went through a book called The Sports Encylopedia: Baseball in the late 1980's and compiled a list of records by franchise. I included all cities for each franchise since it was basically the same team. I then updated any records that were broken at the end of each season via the newspapers, Yahoo!Sports, etc. So I really do not have one source and even though I would love to, I do not have the time to research the records by city.

I do have an updated version of that Baseball Encylopedia, but what it involves to find team records is going through 100+ years of stats for each season and recording the records in each category. It is not an easy research guide for that as it lists each season and you have to find the teams within that season.

I hope this clears up how I got those records.

Thanks and sorry that I cannot research it further at this point.

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I suppose I could copy the data from The Sporting News Baseball Guide, as opposed to the painstaking year-by-year search, but that seems like overkill, and also very possibly a copyright violation, even with proper attribution. Wahkeenah 23:03, 2 May 2005 (UTC)