Negro Leagues statistics added to SABR Lahman Baseball Database
OCTOBER 30, 2025 — For the first time, players, teams, and statistics from the Negro Leagues are now available in SABR’s Lahman Baseball Database!
The Lahman Baseball Database — created by SABR member Sean Lahman and updated by SABR’s database consultant, Bryan Walko — contains complete batting and pitching statistics back to 1871, plus fielding statistics, standings, team stats, managerial records, postseason data, and more.
- Download the files: The updated Lahman Database with Negro Leagues stats (released October 30, 2025) is now available for download at SABR.org/lahman-database.
The Negro Leagues data, licensed from Seamheads.com, includes major leagues and teams from the late 19th century through the 1948 Negro American and National League seasons. The players and teams included in the database follow recommendations established by SABR’s Negro Leagues Task Force (2021) and Negro Leagues and Teams Special Committee (2024), for seasons where full statistics are available from Seamheads.
All Negro Leagues data in the Lahman Database reflects major league-caliber league and independent teams, but does not include exhibitions, international games, or games played against non-major opponents. The recovery of Negro League statistics is an ongoing process and changes may occur when new sources are located and compiled. For more details on the latest release, please read the documentation.
The Lahman Database allows baseball researchers to perform complex queries across the entire history of the game. This database contains complete batting and pitching statistics from 1871 to 2024, plus fielding statistics, standings, team stats, managerial records, postseason data, and more. Stats from the 2025 Major League Baseball season will be added in the coming months.
Visit SABR.org/lahman-database to learn more. Or click here to watch Sean Lahman’s presentation, “An Introduction to Baseball Databases,” for an overview of these files.
Photo credits (clockwise from top-left): Cool Papa Bell, Satchel Paige, Oscar Charleston, Turkey Stearnes, Josh Gibson, Sol White from the SABR-Rucker Archive.
Originally published: October 30, 2025. Last Updated: October 29, 2025.