Marshall Wright is a

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. Born in

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and raised in

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, he resides in

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. Wright graduated from the Bill Kinnamon

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School in 1980. He has been an employee of Howe Sportsdata (now SportsTicker) since 1994. He has written several books on the history of

minor league baseball Minor League Baseball (MiLB) is a professional baseball organization below Major League Baseball (MLB), constituted of teams affiliated with MLB clubs. It was founded on September 5, 1901, in response to the growing dominance of the National Le ...

. In 1998, he received the Sporting News - SABR Baseball Research Award for his book on the

International League The International League (IL) is a Minor League Baseball league that operates in the United States. Along with the Pacific Coast League, it is one of two leagues playing at the Triple-A (baseball), Triple-A level, which is one grade below Major ...

. Wright has been a member of the

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(SABR) since 1987. In 1998, Wright and fellow baseball historian

Bill Weiss William J. Weiss (June 2, 1925, Chicago – August 16, 2011, San Mateo, California), was an American baseball historian and statistician. He served as the official statistician for the Pacific Coast League, and edited a weekly newsletter for ...

were chosen by minor league baseball to choose

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References

Bibliography

*''Nineteenth Century Baseball: Year-By-Year Statistics for the Major League Teams, 1871 Through 1900'' () *''The American Association: Year-By-Year Statistics for the Baseball Minor League, 1902-1952'' () *''The International League: Year-by-year Statistics, 1884-1953'' () *''The National Association of Base Ball Players, 1857-1870'' (). *''The Southern Association in Baseball, 1885-1961'' () *''The Texas League in Baseball, 1888-1958'' ()

External links

Society for American Baseball Research Official Site
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