Overview
From a single field at Cooperstown to leagues the world over, baseball has built a passionate following dedicated to playing the game, improving the game, and simply talking a good game. This community has taken advantage of the World Wide Web to share resources and communicate, and to offer thousands upon thousands of Web sites about different aspects of baseball.Baseball on the Web presents the best of these sites: an astonishingly rich set of resources created by baseball lovers for baseball lovers. By reading this book and visiting the sites, you'll be joining a new, global baseball community and learning about up-to-the-minute sports news, major and minor league teams, baseball history, including the Negro Leagues and women's leagues, rotisserie baseball, and amateur baseball from the Little League World Series to the College World Series.
This book unlocks the door to using a new medium -- the World Wide Web -- that's a grand slam for exploring the statistics, sights, and sounds of America's Pastime. The Web lets you take a virtual tour of venerable ballparks, immerse yourself in baseball lore and literature, and contact other aficionados who share your favorite teams and players.