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Letters from Retrosheet's Founder
As described in Chapter Four, Dave Smith earned an audience with MLB Commissioner Fay Vincent late in 1989. After a face-to-face meeting, Smith sent a letter to Vincent explaining his vision for Retrosheet and what it might provide to both MLB and its fans.
As described in Chapter Seven, Dave Smith was thrilled to speak with Allan Roth, one of baseball's first professional statisticians. After their 1992 phone call, Smith wrote to Roth about many topics including Retrosheet.
As described in Chapter Eleven, Dave Smith and Seymour Siwoff of the Elias Sports Bureau forged a friendship that was put to the test when it came to the subject of revising baseball's official record book. Smith defused the tension in a letter from the summer of 1996.
Allan Roth's Unusual Scoresheets
Considered the cornerstone of the Retrosheet collection, Allan Roth's scoresheets provide amazing details. Unlike the limited illustration in the book, here you can see a full game's scoresheet and instructions for decoding Roth's nomenclature.
Game Log Illustrations
As described in the Interlude before Chapter Six, SABR member Bob Tiemann donated his collection of game logs covering every MLB season in the Retrosheet era. See a complete league-season of Tiemann's work, and his color chart of the 1964 NL pennant race.
