Baseball Almanac

What Baseball Almanac does

Baseball Almanac is a privately held online baseball reference platform founded in 1999 and headquartered in Taylors, United States. The company operates an interactive baseball encyclopedia at baseball-almanac.com covering Major League Baseball statistics, records, player biographies, team histories, box scores, a baseball card database, and original research spanning 1876 to 2026. The site contains 512,630+ pages of content and 1,750,000+ fast facts, with functional modules including the Statmaster custom statistics tool, a baseball dictionary, World Series and postseason coverage, a blog, and a newsletter. Distribution is entirely web-based, global, and free, with traffic driven primarily through organic search, Twitter, Facebook, and the affiliated Baseball Fever message board, which alone generates over 19.9 million hits per month.

The platform is built on a web-based database and content management system that aggregates and curates historical baseball data, with editorial additions described as original research not available elsewhere. Recognized by the Library of Congress (LCCN 2003557424), National Geographic, Sports Collectors Digest, and Yahoo as a definitive online baseball history source, the site serves baseball enthusiasts, researchers, historians, and memorabilia collectors seeking verified statistics and trivia.

The business model is non-transactional: all content is provided free of charge and revenue is generated through on-site display advertising and voluntary donations solicited via a dedicated support page. The company is privately held with no disclosed institutional investors, no funding rounds, and no M&A activity in the available data. No AI/ML capabilities, APIs, or paid subscription tiers are disclosed.

Name

Baseball Almanac

Legal name

Baseball Almanac, Inc.

Website

https://baseball-almanac.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Baseball Almanac is a privately held, free online baseball encyclopedia founded in 1999 that publishes 512,000+ pages of MLB statistics, records, player biographies, and original research covering 1876-2026, serving fans, researchers, and collectors via web access funded by advertising and donations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Sports Statistics & Historical Reference

NAICS

Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (5192)

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

akta.pro primary industry

Sports & Recreation Magazines (MPAJAEAJ)

Keywords

• Baseball statistics database
• MLB historical records
• Baseball reference website
• Sports historical research
• Baseball encyclopedia

Headquarters

HQ city

Miami

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Advertising: The site displays advertisements to generate revenue from its large visitor base. The website mentions an 'Advertising' section and requests financial assistance to support ongoing preservation efforts.
2. Donations/Support: Baseball Almanac is described as a privately held website 'in serious need of your financial assistance' and solicits support through a dedicated support page.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Baseball Almanac operates an interactive baseball encyclopedia that aggregates Major League Baseball statistics, historical records, player biographies, team histories, schedules, box scores, and original baseball research. The web-based reference site delivers 512,630+ pages of content covering MLB from 1876-2026, with 1,750,000+ fast facts curated for baseball enthusiasts, researchers, historians, and collectors.

Product overview

Baseball Almanac is a single, unified web platform offering an interactive baseball encyclopedia. The core product is its comprehensive statistics database spanning 1876-2026, which includes team histories, player biographies and records, schedule/box score systems, record books, a baseball card database, news feeds, and the Statmaster analysis tool. Additional modules include a baseball dictionary, World Series/postseason coverage, a newsletter subscription service, and a blog. The site is publicly accessible with all information provided free of charge.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Baseball Almanac Encyclopedia Comprehensive interactive baseball encyclopedia offering 512,630+ pages of MLB statistics, team histories, player biographies, record books, schedules and box scores, news feeds, the baseball dictionary, and World Series/postseason coverage spanning 1876-2026. Free to all visitors and aimed at baseball fans, researchers, historians, and memorabilia collectors.
• Statmaster Interactive statistical analysis tool that lets users run custom queries of team hitting, pitching, and fielding statistics across MLB seasons. Used by baseball enthusiasts and researchers to derive custom analyses from the underlying database.
• Baseball Card Database Comprehensive database of baseball cards with checklists, card sets, and pricing information across multiple manufacturers. Used by baseball card collectors and memorabilia hobbyists seeking verified product data.

Quantifiable outcome

• 19.9+ million hits per month on Baseball Fever message board
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Baseball FeverminorOthersBaseball Fever is Baseball Almanac's associated message board community, described as one of the most popular online social sites in the world receiving 19.9+ million hits per month. It serves as a discussion forum for baseball enthusiasts.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• ESPN: ESPN is the largest U.S. sports media company and offers scores, stats, news, and historical content across all major sports including MLB. It competes for advertising against baseball-specific reference sites and benefits from significantly larger scale and distribution.
• STATS Perform (Stats LLC): STATS Perform is a leading sports data and analytics provider distributing official MLB data feeds to media companies, sportsbooks, and broadcasters. It operates in the same baseball data ecosystem but serves B2B distribution rather than direct consumer reference.
• MLB.com: MLB.com is the official site of Major League Baseball, providing scores, standings, schedules, player pages, and historical content. It is a broad incumbent that overlaps with Baseball Almanac on historical statistics and team/player reference pages while dominating news, video, and ticketing.

Direct peers

• The Baseball Cube: The Baseball Cube is an independent baseball statistics site offering player pages, scouting reports, and minor league data. It targets a similar enthusiast and researcher audience with overlapping historical statistics and record offerings.
• Sports Reference (Baseball Reference, Basketball Reference, etc.): Sports Reference operates Baseball Reference, the most widely cited MLB statistics and historical record site. It is a direct competitor offering the same core product category (MLB stats, player pages, record books) to overlapping baseball enthusiast and researcher audiences.
• FanGraphs: FanGraphs is a leading baseball statistics and analysis site covering player performance, advanced metrics, and historical records. It targets a similar analytics-oriented subset of the baseball enthusiast audience and competes for advertising and engagement in the same MLB statistics niche.
• Retrosheet: Retrosheet is a nonprofit historical baseball statistics organization that compiles play-by-play accounts and box scores dating back to the 19th century. Its mission to preserve and disseminate historical baseball data directly overlaps with Baseball Almanac's archival content focus.
• Baseball Savant: Baseball Savant is MLB's official advanced statistics portal offering Statcast data, exit velocity, and spray charts. It competes for the same analytics-driven baseball researcher audience and benefits from official MLB backing.

Emerging players

• The Hardball Times: The Hardball Times is a baseball analysis and writing site covering sabermetrics, history, and player evaluation. It serves an overlapping baseball enthusiast audience with research-oriented content that complements Baseball Almanac's statistical reference pages.
• Society for American Baseball Research (SABR): SABR is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to baseball research and historical preservation. It publishes the Baseball Research Journal and an online encyclopedia and addresses the same researcher/collector segment that Baseball Almanac serves.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/BaseballAlmanac
• Facebookfacebook.com/BaseballAlmanacInc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/baseball-almanac-inc.

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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