Sports -- Statistics
Rodney Forts's site has an extensive collection of data on the business aspects of sports including: players' salaries, ticket prices, TV revenues and Fan Cost Index for baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Fort, a professor of economics at Washington State University, compiles the data from a number of different sources.
The Baseball Archive
Baseball player and team statistics, including a list on individual
player salaries by year, in zipped format; some data from 1871 -
; also includes history and salaries. Free but donations requested.
Business
of Baseball
Excel srpeadsheets with salries, valuations, attendance and more;
also inlcudes history and biographies.
Hickok
Sports.com
Histories, statistics, and links to other sites from the author
of The Encyclopedia of North American Sports History.
infoplease
sports almanac
Records, listings, search engine and encylopedia entries
Major
League Baseball
Special reports Baseball Economics - Includes 2001 financial data
about MLB clubs.
Revenues
from Sports Venues
Price for naming rights to sports stadiums and arenas. Subscription
for more in depth information.
Statistics in
Sports (a Division of the American Statistical Society).
Links to sports data sites, web sites including local newspapers
sports pages, and sports statistics as a career.
American Sports Data offers fee-based market research reports on sports participation and fitness. Some free data is embedded in the articles and essays and there is limited sample data in the major reports.
USA
Today
Salaries databases, TV listings, scores, transactions and more
