older NCAA baseball stats?
December 21, 2015 3:30 PM Subscribe
Looking for 1980s and 1990s baseball rosters and stats specifically for Indiana University, any suggestions?
baseball-reference.com doesn't seem to have college ball info at all, although perhaps I am missing something. IU proper only provides online records that go back to 2005. One site in particular appears to focus on providing college ball stats as a differentiator, thebaseballcube.com, but they only go back to 2002.
I'm also interested in finding photos from games in the era, especially of road games. I'm looking in particular to establish a timeline of uniform changes for road jerseys in conduction with rosters that include uniform number to date a specific jersey I picked up on ebay.
My purchasing partner stated he picked it up in Bloomington in the mid 2000s so I started looking at players with the number from then and found a guy. But the jersey looks older than that to me. It has a conventional button-closure with interior cotton placketing and a poly shell with elasticized knit striped cuffs, which was a look in the early 1990s in MLB. I haven't ever seen a mixed fabric construction jersey before. It was made by Wilson. Contemporary jerseys are generally all-poly with no separate placket, and older jerseys that I have seen are generally all wool, some with a placket liner of finer material such as cotton. The first poly jerseys seem often to have been pullovers with no buttons in the 1970s, not a look I know if Indiana ever used. Since MLB moved back to buttoned jerseys with poly construction sometime in the late seventies or early eighties, I think it's likely that this jersey is from after 1980.
I'm also interested in finding photos from games in the era, especially of road games. I'm looking in particular to establish a timeline of uniform changes for road jerseys in conduction with rosters that include uniform number to date a specific jersey I picked up on ebay.
My purchasing partner stated he picked it up in Bloomington in the mid 2000s so I started looking at players with the number from then and found a guy. But the jersey looks older than that to me. It has a conventional button-closure with interior cotton placketing and a poly shell with elasticized knit striped cuffs, which was a look in the early 1990s in MLB. I haven't ever seen a mixed fabric construction jersey before. It was made by Wilson. Contemporary jerseys are generally all-poly with no separate placket, and older jerseys that I have seen are generally all wool, some with a placket liner of finer material such as cotton. The first poly jerseys seem often to have been pullovers with no buttons in the 1970s, not a look I know if Indiana ever used. Since MLB moved back to buttoned jerseys with poly construction sometime in the late seventies or early eighties, I think it's likely that this jersey is from after 1980.
Or try the Indiana Daily Student newspaper, http://www.idsnews.com, or the Bloomington Herald Tribune archives
posted by marguerite at 5:41 PM on December 21, 2015
posted by marguerite at 5:41 PM on December 21, 2015
Best answer: This sounds like an excellent question for the obsessives at Uni Watch.
posted by kelseyq at 6:12 PM on December 21, 2015
posted by kelseyq at 6:12 PM on December 21, 2015
Response by poster: H-T is paywalled, iirc, but that reminds me that I know a guy...
posted by mwhybark at 6:27 PM on December 21, 2015
posted by mwhybark at 6:27 PM on December 21, 2015
Response by poster: in conduction? conjunction, of course, autocorrect you evildoer.
posted by mwhybark at 6:30 PM on December 21, 2015
posted by mwhybark at 6:30 PM on December 21, 2015
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