Baseball Musings came online in March, 2002, and I’d like to thank the readers once again for making this site a labor of love. Your comments, jokes, and criticism help make this a fine forum for discussing our pastime. Baseball Musings remains one of the few independent voices from the early days of baseball blogging.
Since 2005, readers supported the site with donations during the March pledge drive. With Major League Baseball on hold for a number of months, the pledge drive took a back seat to the pandemic. Now that baseball is back, I hope you will consider helping out with the costs of the site.
The main cost of running the site is the data for the Day by Day Database. The DBD is a different research tool, given you date driven data from the start. Teams and fantasy players use it on a daily basis. It provides data for the daily Beat the Streak Picks. It provides data for the Musings Marcels and the Opposition batting version of that projection system. I have a number of readers who reported fantasy success using that data. Over the winter, the database expanded to include all batter and pitcher game lines back to 1920. We now can see the old newspaper style of league leaders every day, and for every day in the last 100 years.
Is this worth a five dollar donation? If every one who visited the site today donated that amount, the drive would be finished in a day.
Larger donations earn you a premium. For a donation of $50, you will be able to dedicate a post. The dedication should be in good taste and may contain a hyperlink. For a contribution of $500, you can join Jack Spellman as a Patron on the side bar for two years, including a hyperlink.
Donations can be made via PayPal, Square Cash, or Venmo. Venmo needs to be used through the mobile app, and my name is David-Pinto-82. Unfortunately, other donations providers have gone out of business or charge too much money in fees. If you do not wish to use one of the above providers but still wish to donate, please contact me and I’ll provide an address for a check. (I recently moved, so the old address won’t work.) My email is pinto@baseballmusings.com.
Thank you for your support!