Sean Lahman
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Sean Lahman (born June 9, 1968) is a sports historian, writer, statistician, and archivist.
Unlike most baseball writers in the post-Bill James era, Lahman eschewed number crunching and statistical analysis to focus on collecting and publishing raw source material for sports researchers. He is most noted for the Lahman Baseball Database, a collection of baseball statistics for every team and player in Major League history. Starting in 1995, he made this database freely available for download from the Internet, helping to launch a new era of baseball research by making the raw data available to everyone.
Lahman's efforts to document the statistical history of sports have gone beyond baseball. Since the late 1990s, he has edited or contributed to the definitive encyclopedias for baseball, professional football, professional basketball, and tennis.
In addition to these encyclopedias, Lahman is the author of several books on sports history, and since 2001 has served as football columnist for the New York Sun. He was a senior editor for Total Sports Publishing from 1999 to 2001. Lahman also launched the Football Project, an effort to collect, digitize, and distribute play-by-play accounts from NFL games back to 1920.
