Hardball Information

The Hardball Times is a bunch of guys who like to write about baseball. The site was founded in the early spring of 2004 by Aaron Gleeman and Matthew Namee (Bill James' research assistant at the time). Aaron and Matthew also recruited Dave Studeman (from Baseball Graphs) to help create and maintain the site. The fundamental idea was for The Hardball Times (THT) to be a robust baseball website, featuring outstanding commentary, analysis and research. It was not conceived as a blog but an edited online magazine, with several long articles each day. Aaron, Matthew and Dave were among the ten founding writers. Here's a link to our very first article. We have published over 10,000 articles since. Yeah, but what are you guys about? What's your mission? In fact, we do have a Mission Statement. Here are the key parts: The purpose of The Hardball Times is to provide entertaining and insightful baseball writing, aimed at the average baseball fan. The core of THT will be its diverse team of writers, who will cover a wide range of baseball interests from specific team commentary, to fantasy leagues, transaction review, baseball history, and other areas as they are identified. Our first staff meeting. Aaron is the guy who looks suspiciously like Alexander Cartwright, in the top row, middle. He had just cracked a joke. THT's writers will not write about topics because they are important. They will write about topics because they are interesting. THT will be unique in the way it presents statistics, using graphics and other visual presentations. THT will not be a closed community. Its writers will welcome exchanges with readers and other web sites. THT's writers will be encouraged to refer to other websites with interesting material, and to recognize and link to material related to their articles. The core of the Hardball Times is its Internet site. But THT can be thought of as a general baseball publishing endeavor. We will publish baseball content in a variety of media, including the Internet, e-mail, books and magazines. ...