After twelve days of the March Pledge Drive, 207 readers have sent in $2553. Thank you all so much! I hope many more of you will join them. Over 32,000 unique URLs visited Baseball Musings so far in March. So those 207 readers are supporting over 100 times their weight! Don’t let them do it alone.

All it takes is $1. If every one who visits the site this month gives that much, Baseball Musings can run for a year. If every one gave $10, I could run the site indefinitely. What do you get for your money? How about the Day by Day Database? It provides you with a daily record of each batter and pitcher back to 1974. You can look at anytime period, compare batters, and sort on any field. Since the start of the 2000 seasons, splits are available as well. One reader who contributed a dollar wrote:

Sorry I couldn’t give much David. Times are tough. But I enjoy your work and it’s more of a token of my appreciation for what you do. Thanks, and keep up the good work.

It’s readers like this who make my job a pleasure. Obstructed seats blogs:

As most people have undoubtedly read on numerous sites and blogs, David Pinto is running a pledge drive during the month of March for his blog Baseball Musings. If you are one of the few who hasn’t been to his site, then I encourage you to do so. You can find numerous amounts of postings dedicated not only to main stream media events, but also to some very good blogs that you may not have known existed. He also provides some excellent resources in his Probabilistic Model of Range and his Day by Day Database.

Donations can be made via Amazon, PayPal or Click and Pledge (new this year). Just click on the button of choice below. There are a number of people who won’t use PayPal, and Amazon limits contributions in a one month period. Click and Pledge will process a credit card without making you sign up for an account. This is my first time trying that company, but they’ve been very helpful so far. Please let me know if there are any problems. Click and Pledge does pop up a window for the donations, so if your browser blocks those, you can go to a new page here.

Join the 207 people who donated so far in supporting this blog. Any amount is appreciated. A $500 earns you a listing and link under patrons for two years, and a $50 donation allows you to dedicate a post with a link. Given Baseball Musings’ high rank among search engines, that two year link price is a bargain for your business!

Baseball Musings also offers book premiums! There are two copies of Baseball Prospectus 2006 left, and a donation of $75 is all it takes to get this great book. Tangotiger donated three copies of The Book. If you prefer, one of those can by your for the same $75. Take your pick! Thanks to Oleg Lyubner and Tom Tango for helping out Baseball Musings!