We're taking a look at my top 9 favorite (in no particular order) online resources for College Baseball information. Baseball-Reference.com may seem like an odd fit for this list of College Baseball Resources. The website is well known as an online repository of historical details about everything MLB. It's the more nuts-and-bolts version of the more fan-friendly Baseball-Almanac.com.
But there is a feature of Baseball-Reference.com that the curious college baseball fan will find very interesting: the Collegiate Baseball Information page.
On this page you can find a list of every player who was ever in the major leagues who played at the University of Missouri (35 total, at this point). Or Haskell Indian Nations University (1). Or the University of Southern California (102 -- 2 more than the #2 school, Texas).
When you bring up the list of a college's alumni, you can sort the list based on a full range of statistics. For example:
• Homer Summa (MU '18) leads MU alums in career MLB batting average at .302 (among players with a significant number of at-bats)
• Glenn Wright (20-23) leads with most games played (1119) and plate appearances (4480), as well as home runs (94), although Ian Kinsler (03) is due to take the HR lead, having 92. Kinsler leads in slugging % (.466)• Sonny Siebert (58) has a strong lead among pitchers with a 140-114 record, but is edged out by Darold Knowles (60) in ERA (3.12 vs. 3.21). Knowles is far and away the leader in saves (143)
If you're a casual fan, you'll take a look, shrug your shoulders and go, "Well, huh."
If, like me, you're a fan of college baseball history, don't be surprised if you get lost in the depths of BaseballReference.com.
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