The Lahman Baseball Database is one of the most comprehensive baseball statistics datasets available. While the data we work with in the recipes is with the csv file format dataset, it is relational data, and does come in SQL and Access formats as well. The data is provided by Sean Lahman through a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The following diagram shows the tables that we work with in the book:
Note that in the recipes that involve the
master table we refer to it as Player, since that is the data in that source.
