Effectively Wild Episode 1318: The Keeper of the Game

Ben Lindbergh and Jeff Sullivan banter about New York Met Rymer Liriano and the minor league free agent draft, David Robertson signing with the Phillies, Robertson’s underrated record, and a Sabermetrics Mount Rushmore, then (14:43) talk to Retrosheet founder and president Dave Smith about how he started Retrosheet, the organization’s mission to collect a record of every major-league game ever played, its most valuable and most unlikely play-by-play sources, how games get entered into the database, the unreliability of players’ recollections, Dave’s Vin Scully/ Sandy Koufax story, how Retrosheet is continuing to unearth missing games, how it deduces games when complete records aren’t available, whether it will ever complete its task, why baseball stats and history are so fascinating, and more. Audio intro : Whitney, " Dave’s Song " Audio interstitial : Gillian Welch, " Everything is Free " Audio outro : The Who, " Daily Records " Link to EW minor league draft results Link to Jeff’s Robertson post Link to Ben’s Sherri Nichols story Link to David Neft interview Link to Retrosheet’s most wanted games Link to Tewksbury interview Link to Secret Santa montage iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!) Sponsor Us on Patreon Facebook Group Effectively Wild Wiki Twitter Account Get Our Merch! Email Us: podcast@fangraphs.com var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source