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1st Inning: Game logs are one of newest most exciting features. Here is how they work. Say for example you are on the Kirby Puckett page (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=puckeki01). In the Hitting Stats section you will notice that there are now boxes around the Yr (Year), Team & G (Games Played) column. The Year now links to the Year in Review page from the league in which the player played. The Team now links to the roster for the year in question. And the new addition is the Games Played link which brings up a list of all the games the player appeared in during that particular season along with some basic
data about how they hit in those particular games.

2nd Inning: Our Baseball Digital Scorebook was easily the single most downloaded application on Baseball Almanac in 2005. We are pleased to announce that the 2006 edition is even more powerful, has even more features, and remains the single best scoring application on the Internet. Don't believe us? Try out the demo
(http://baseball-almanac.com/bstatmen.shtml).

3rd Inning: Every single one of our player pages now has a small chart picture next to the Born In field. Click it and up comes a detailed analysis (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/birthplace.php) of where every major league player has been born. This data is updated the moment new biographical data is reported by SABR so it is truly as up to date as possible. As always we like taking these type scripts to the next level, so at the bottom of that same page is a list of years spanning 1876 through 2005. Click a season there and you will get a breakdown of every player in that particular season making it easy to determine what percentage of players were from foreign countries, California, or any other place during that particular season.

4th Inning: We could not complete the third inning and just skip the opposite set of research so every single one of our player pages now has a small chart picture next to the Died In field. Click it and up comes a detailed analysis (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/deathplace.php) of where every major league player passed away. This data is updated the day a player passes away so it is truly as up to date as possible. As always we like taking these type scripts to the next level, so at the bottom of that same page is a list of years spanning 1876 through 2005. Click a season there and you will get a breakdown of death locations for every player
who died in that particular season.

5th Inning: If you have not visited Baseball Almanac in a while you'll probably be pleased to know we added two new biographical fields to our player pages. The first is cemetery data. A breakdown of the 16,219 players is: 1,036 unknown cemetery locations, 3 pending (passed away in the last week), 7,943 which are not applicable (player is still alive) and 7,237 known locations which are all online today.

6th Inning: The second new biographical field is a bit "out there", but we enjoyed adding it nonetheless. Based on a player's date of birth, we have included the Zodiac sign for each player. This data is updated the moment SABR releases newly discovered birth data so it too is as accurate as possible.

7th Inning: Another recent addition to the site is our Baseball Card Database
(http://www.baseball-almanac.com/baseball_cards/baseball_cards.php).
This new project has yet another insane goal similar to when we wanted to track down and add every uniform number in history (successfully completed long ago). Anyway, our goal here is to not just add baseball card lists, but rather to make lists that allow you to click and get a player's stats from within the checklist. This new endeavor has 23 sets integrated and 18,096 cards linked to date. Our goal in 2006 is break the 100,000 cards mark at which point we will add a new feature on each
player page which will bring up a checklist of cards from sets with that player on them.

8th Inning: Speaking of insane projects, our current project of adding integrated baseball cards onto the player pages which serve as a great player picture (in our opinion) is still advancing nicely. We have more than 3,000 integrated pictures (last names A through Q) with thousands more on the way throughout 2006. A slow tedious project, but one we are truly enjoying and hope you are too.

9th Inning: Another nice new upgrade that we added earlier this year is on the team rosters. Besides the regular / easily found data, we have included in the Fast Facts an Opening Day roster, a most starts by each position roster, a known salary roster, and a uniform number roster (sorted by number rather than by position in the common roster).

We hope you enjoy these upgrades and new features even more. If you wish to financially support our efforts in 2006 we could truly use your support. For six
years we have yet to take a salary or spend a penny on anything other than the Baseball Almanac family of sites so if you can / wish to help (even a small donation is better than none at all) please visit this page (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/support.shtml).

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