Four years ago Baseball Musings became a full time job. I hoped at the time that:

this site can become self-sustaining, generating enough income to support my family.

I asked you, the readers, to help kick start the effort, and you responded with a heartening $3000. In the following two years you responded each March with generous donations. Thanks to all who contributed, as well as to the thousands of readers, commentators and other blogs linking here that make the site a success.

I want to especially thank Brian Borawski for acting as my agent those first few months, sending advertisers this way. Jamie and Chris Mottram promoted the pledge drive on their various Internet ventures over the years. Ray Garcia of TPSRadio.net invited me to broadcast a weekly radio show, which also helped expand the audience for Baseball Musings. Will Leitch of Deadspin sends lots of traffic this way as only he can. I'd also like to thank all my blogging buddies who sent readers this way during the pledge drives.

I also thank the good people at Baseball Prospects and SportingNews.com for giving my writing a wider audience by publishing my work on their sites. A number of sport radio stations invite me to comment on baseball due to my exposure through those sites.

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So once again, I'm asking for your help. If you use the Day by Day Database (complete logs back to 1957), if you learn something from the Probabilistic Model of Range consider a donation. If you're a long time reader, if you found something useful through a Google search, even if you just like to come here and complain in the comments, please be part of this site with a contribution. Any amount is fine. If every individual who visits this site in March gives $1, Baseball Musings can be written full time for a year. If everyone donated $10, the money raised would sustain this site indefinitely.

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