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dub3's pixel tribute to Baseball Reference in 2000: a Dot-com-era sports site
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2000 page

dub3 card · www.baseball-reference.com

Baseball Reference (2000)

Last updated: see below.

Cost
2 RAM
Power
4
Rarity
Common
Family
Institutions
Era
Dot-com (1999 to 2002)

What it does

No ability.

No ability, just Power. Sometimes that's all a homepage needs.

It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 4 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.

Institutions cards protect your side, and come back strong when you're losing.

The site, in 2000

A baseball statistics database with career records for Major League players and teams, plus the history of the draft.

Sean Forman, then a doctoral student at the University of Iowa, launched it in April 2000. It was the first of the Sports Reference sites, and it started as a web front end to existing baseball data.

Dot-com era, 1999 to 2002. Glossy buttons, big money and a bug called Y2K. Some of these companies were worth billions for about a fortnight.

The Establishment: Governments, universities, libraries and archives. Very official.

Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2000 page.

In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2000, then plays a short scene. Want Baseball Reference in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.