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Modern Season Disk Generation for Earl Weaver Baseball 1.5 – Lahman, R, and SeasonTool Integration

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The SeasonTool utility was created by Daniel Guenther in the late-1990’s to facilitate the creation of season disks for Earl Weaver Baseball 1.5 for the IBM PC (EWB). SeasonTool relies on CSV files derived from the Lahman baseball database. However, modern Lahman releases (including SABR Lahman 2025) differ significantly from the Lahman 5.1 schema that … Read more

What Happened to Steve Carlton?

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Steve Carlton, otherwise known as “Lefty”, will turn 74 this December.  In today’s age of specialization and analytics driven pitching decisions, it seems a lifetime ago since we saw a pitcher amass 280 innings.  Carlton managed to do it 5 times, eclipsing 300 innings in 1972 and 1980.  4136 strikeouts in 5217.2 innings seems unattainable … Read more