Sean Lahman

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Sean Lahman (born June 9, 1968) (pronounced "lay-men")

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle[3] and frequently makes public appearances to speak about database journalism, data mining and open-source databases.[4][5][6][7]

Sports research

He is most noted for the Lahman Baseball Database,

simulation games, such as Baseball Mogul and Out of the Park Baseball, to recreate historical seasons from actual baseball history.[11]

In the mid-1990s, Lahman created the first online baseball encyclopedia at his Baseball Archive website. [12]He later sold the website to Total Sports and became senior editor for that company's print publishing division. The encyclopedia disappeared from the web when Total Sports declared bankruptcy. It was later reborn as Baseball-Reference.com,[13] and Lahman resurrected the Baseball Archive website as a platform to continue the free distribution of his database.

Since 2011, he has worked for the

minor league baseball
SABR Analytics Confernce.[16]
 Lahman served on a task force that made recommendations on which Black leagues from baseball’s segregated era should be recognized as major leagues. [17]

Lahman's efforts to document the statistical history of sports have gone beyond baseball. During the 1990s and 2000s, he edited or contributed to the definitive encyclopedias for baseball,

professional basketball, and tennis.[18] In the late 1990s, Lahman launched the Football Project, an effort to collect, digitize, and distribute play-by-play accounts from NFL games back to 1920. In 2010, he served on a "blue ribbon" panel assembled by NFL Films for the ten-part documentary series called The Top 100: NFL's Greatest Players
. [19] He has also appeared as a guest on the MLB Network show "Behind the Seams."[20]

Books

From 1998 to 2007, Lahman was an editor or contributor to more than a dozen sports encyclopedias ,[21] including:

  • three editions of Total Baseball: The Official Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball
  • five editions of the ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia
  • two editions of the ESPN Pro Football Encyclopedia
  • Total Tennis: The Ultimate Tennis Encyclopedia
  • Total Basketball: The Ultimate Basketball Encyclopedia
  • Baseball: The Biographical Encyclopedia

In addition to these encyclopedias, Lahman has written several other books on sports history. He created the annual Pro Football Prospectus in 2002 and produced the first three editions in the series. His 2008 book The Pro Football Historical Abstract received the Nelson Ross Award, presented annually for "outstanding achievement in pro football research and historiography" by the

Pro Football Researchers Association
.

Newspaper and other work

Lahman has worked as a database reporter for the

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle since 2010, where he has been a part of statewide and national investigative reporting teams for the USA Today Network. His work has won awards in a variety of disciplines, including feature writing, business reporting, spot news, and state government reporting.[22] His 2018 reporting on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's campaign fundraising[23]
won the Associated Press First Amendment award. [24]

He has also won awards for his reporting on gun violence and the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests.

Lahman was a senior editor for

New York Sun
from 2003 until the paper's demise in 2008. [25]

External links


References

  1. ^ Lahman tweets on pronunciation of his name, retrieved 2014-06-03
  2. ^ News MVP winners reflect efforts to expand digital content, archived from the original on 2012-03-20, retrieved 2011-05-08
  3. ^ Democrat and Chronicle, archived from the original on 2013-01-21, retrieved 2010-06-22
  4. ^ MuckRack: Dissecting data for good storytelling
  5. ^ Society for American Baseball Research 43rd annual convention
  6. ^ New York State Associated Press Association 2011 workshop Archived 2011-08-08 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Social Media and Communications Symposium, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2010
  8. ^ Lahman Baseball Database download page, retrieved 2008-10-05
  9. ^ Classical Sabermetrics: What is the Lahman Database? The beginning of baseball data analysis, retrieved 2023-08-23
  10. ^ Interview with Baseball Database Innovator Sean Lahman, archived from the original on 2012-01-08, retrieved 2012-03-09
  11. ^ Stavenhagen, Cody. "'OOTP Baseball:' How a German programmer created the deepest baseball sim ever made". The Athletic. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
  12. ^ "LIBRARY/BASEBALL STATISTICS; Joy in Webville". New York Times. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
  13. ^ Baseball Reference: Our Sources, Contributors and Collaborators
  14. ^ Lahman To Serve As SABR Data Project Point of Contact, retrieved 2012-03-22
  15. ^ SABR Historical Minor League Statistics, retrieved 2012-04-11
  16. ^ 2021 SABR Virtual Analytics Conference Schedule, retrieved 2024-02-07
  17. ^ SABR Negro Leagues Task Force issues recommendations on major-league status, retrieved 2021-02-11
  18. ^ Interview with Baseball Database Innovator Sean Lahman, archived from the original on 2012-01-08, retrieved 2012-03-09
  19. ^ NFL Films' Top 100 Greatest Players, archived from the original on 2013-04-15
  20. ^ "Behind The Seams: Decoding The DH" premieres tonight at 9:00 p.m. ET, retrieved 2012-12-13
  21. ^ List of Sean Lahman's Books, archived from the original on 2008-07-06, retrieved 2008-10-05
  22. ^ AP awards announced, retrieved 2008-10-05
  23. ^ The $100 Million Man: How Cuomo's campaign war chest became one of the nation's largest, retrieved 2018-12-31
  24. ^ Associated Press 2019 awards, 2 June 2019, retrieved 2019-08-05
  25. ^ New York Sun archive, retrieved 2008-10-05
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