I’ve been meaning to do a unique (well, fairly unique) hack for a while. I’ve had the database of major league baseball players from The Baseball Archive loaded in mysql for a while, and I’ve thought of creating a little sidebar gadget that shows all the major leaguers who were born on today’s date.
Well, if you go over the right and scroll below, you’ll see that I’ve spent five minutes and finally done it. Listed are the players first and last name, as well as any nicknames they have, and the year in which they were born. You can click on their name, and that will carry you to the Baseball Almanac baseball-reference.com page for that player. Fun.
Cool use of db info. Would be even cooler if the db was a global remote source rather than loaded into your mysql. And if the players were sorted by birth date first instead of alphabetically. But cool!
Editor’s note: Well, there’s nothing stopping YOU from doing that. 🙂 I’m not really interested in providing universal database access for baseball data: it’s just a lark for me. Checkout baseball1.com or baseball-reference.com for more universal and useful access.