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Lahman's efforts to document the statistical history of sports have gone beyond baseball. During the 1990s and 2000s, he edited or contributed to the definitive encyclopedias for baseball,
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by making the raw data available to everyone. In addition to fostering research, the Lahman
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He is most noted for the Lahman
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He has also won awards for his reporting on gun violence and the sexual abuse of children by
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Since 2021, Lahman has taught a course on working with baseball databases as part of the annual
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history. Starting in 1995, he made this database freely available for download from the
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games back to 1920. In 2010, he served on a "blue ribbon" panel assembled by
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in 2002 and produced the first three editions in the series. His 2008 book
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