Top 9 Online College Baseball Resources: Might-bees, Newbies & Wannabees

Over the past 9 weeks we've listed my 9 favorite online resources for College Baseball. Here's a list of 9 (well, 10 actually) sites that didn't quite make the cut, some of them quite worthy of your time, others not so much:

■ BlackCollegeBaseball.com: At first glance, this may seem an odd topic for a website (kind of like JewsinBaseball.blogspot.com). But BCB.com is devoted to the conferences made up largely of the historically black colleges, most of which play in a small handful of conferences, which makes it not much different in focus than SEBaseball.com or any other site devoted to a conference or a region. And I guarantee that if you spend some time poking around at BCB, you will be rewarded.

■ College Baseball Foundation: These are the folks behind the College Baseball Hall of Fame, located somewhat arbitrarily in Lubbock, Texas (because some folks from Texas Tech were the first ones to have the gumption to get a Hall of Fame going, so they stuck the thing in Lubbock). The site has information about, well, the Foundation and the Hall of Fame. It's worth a look, just not a really long look.

■ Informed Athlete: The website of former Mizzou Baseball parent Rick Allen is a great resource for information about recruiting, eligibility and compliance. Lots of free information and advice, including a recruiting calendar and calendar-specific advice on what to be paying attention to at each step of the way. He's also advertising his consulting service and his book, Both Sides of the Plate.

■ CollegeBaseballLineup.com: formerly known as Ping Baseball, these folks say they're planning to to ramp up their coverage. They've got some blogs and some off-beat stuff. The jury is still out.

"Originally a labor of love and tiny operation in Omaha, Nebraska, College Baseball Lineup (formerly Ping !Baseball) has grown to become a robust, national group whose dynamic membership celebrates the athletes, excitement and emotion of the game."

■ Baseball-Links.com: One of the grand-daddies of baseball websites, John Skilton has been compiling thousands of baseball-related websites since 1995. His list has become so huge that it's hard to keep up with, resulting in a good number of broken links. But it's still an excellent source to find hidden treasures among the vast internet.

■ Active.com Baseball Community has a message board where people ask and answer questions about NCAA Baseball rules. Not a lot of people, but enough to be interesting.

■ CollegeSummerBall.net is a blog devoted to the collegiate summer wood bat leagues. Coverage is somewhat uneven and spotty, but what's there is informative.

■ College Baseball Insider & CollegeBaseball360: CBI and CB360 are somewhat like The College Baseball blog, somewhat like Rivals.com, somewhat like College Baseball Today. For the most part, they are somewhat interesting and somewhat not. Somewhat.

■ Collegiate Baseball Newspaper : Collegiate Baseball Newspaper is an "old school" print publication over 40 years old. Their online presence looks "old school" as well, as in circa 1995. A few links, a few lists, and a long list of pages with very little content. For example, their page on Baseball History is unbelievably sparse for a publication so steeped in the history of the college game. The page consists of the following:

Google - Baseball History
Google - Baseball Historical

Thanks. I don't think I could have found Google without your help.