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Every sports fan keeps constant tabs on the who, what, where, and when of various sports. The hunger for more information about any particular sport of interest is seemingly insatiable. There is a huge number of online resources that offer a vast amount of data on sports statistics. Listed below are some of the more popular ones:

Sports Alamanac by infoplease.com

This site offers general information about the different sports such as Final NBA and WNBA standings, World Series Season Summaries, and other related information. It contains information about Olympics, basketball, college basketball, pro football, college football, baseball, hockey, golf, tennis, ballparks & arenas, and player biographies.

Retrosheet

This site contains general as well as detailed information about Baseball. Although it is only limited to baseball, it has an extensive detailed archive of data about it. It has data covering the period between 1827 to 2007. It features the list of players, managers, coaches, umpires, ballparks, franchises, top performances, no-hitters and cycles, post season data, all-star games, regular season games, tie-breaker playoffs. It even has downloadable data in the form of MS Word and RTF docs containing Play by Play info — and best of all it’s all free.

BBallSports.com

This site has interactive historical sports statistics databases. Its coverage is separated into four major categories:

• Baseball Statistics Database (1871-2003)

• Basketball Statistics Database (1937-2004)

• Hockey Statistics Database (1917-2004)

• Football Statistics Database (1920-2002)

It has a downloadable “superDB” containing sports data for baseball, basketball, hockey, and football. The superDB allows you to sort data by player name, year, and team name and get the player’s career, annual, decade, team, and league totals. Click on the link below to see a screenshot of the SuperDB app.

Main Site

SuperDB