Website of the Week

Baseball Library, http://www.pubdim.net/baseballlibrary/

In honor of spring training, we invite you to visit the Baseball Library, a site the New York Times has called "a hulking colossus of baseball arcana."

Step up to the plate and take a crack at

• the team pages: all teams and greatest teams
• ballplayers: historical matchups, the Negro League, Hall of Famers, and MVPs
• today in baseball history
• chronology of the game
• book excerpts

The legal-minded can even review rules and rule disputes from 1845 to the present.

Just the tip of the iceberg of great baseball websites include:

• Major League Baseball, http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/homepage/mlb_homepage.jsp 
• the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/ 
• Baseball Reference, http://www.baseball-reference.com/ 

Play ball!