Bonilla: Postponement and cancellation info added to Baseball-Reference.com team schedules
From Alex Bonilla at Baseball-Reference.com on April 24, 2018:
Thanks to the efforts of David Vincent (R.I.P.), Baseball Reference has added originally scheduled dates of games that were made up later in the season or unplayed due to other circumstances. We have now incorporated that information into our team schedules from 1877 up to 2016, with the 2017 and 2018 seasons coming later on.
This information, which is part of the Retrosheet database, also includes the reason for the postponement or cancellation of the game. So now it’s easier to know the 2007 Indians played their first “home” series in Milwaukee due to snow in Cleveland. In addition to weather-related postponements, we also mark games that were pushed due to more tragic events, such as the 1968 Pirates and several other teams that season delaying their openers due to the funeral for Martin Luther King Jr.
As a final note, a reminder that the reason there was a second game that had to be forefited on Disco Demolition Night was because of a rainout for a game previously scheduled on May 2, 1979.
For more information on the source and other contributors to this project, please refer to Retrosheet.
Read the full article here: https://www.sports-reference.com/blog/2018/04/postponement-and-cancellation-info-added-to-baseball-team-schedules/
Originally published: April 24, 2018. Last Updated: April 24, 2018.