Happy Birthday Hack O’ the Day
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.