Business of Baseball
Downloadable Data and Documents

Here's some data I've never seen collected anywhere else. If you use it, please credit me as the source: "Doug Pappas, SABR Business of Baseball Committee. If you find this information useful, please consider supporting this site, either through a direct donation or by a purchase through amazon.com.

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Contents
MLB's Official Financial Disclosures
Labor-Related Matters
Spreadsheets and Databases
Historic MLB Documents
Player Salaries by Year
Documents Relating to the Expos' RICO Action


MLB's Official Financial Disclosures
Blue Ribbon Panel Report (2000)
December 2001 financial disclosures

Labor-Related Matters
PDF copy of 2002-06 Collective Bargaining Agreement (warning: 775K download)
PDF copy of 1996-2001 Collective Bargaining Agreement
Free agent filings, 1974-2003
Retrosheet list of all known free agents, 1974-2001, as well as the clubs which signed them (264K textfile)
Salary arbitrations, 1974-2004 (HTML) (Word) (WordPerfect)

Spreadsheets and Databases
Team-by-team payroll information, 1977-2004 (Excel spreadsheet)
Ticket prices and Fan Cost Index by team, 1991-2004 (Excel spreadsheet)
Ticket prices by team, 1950-2004 (HTML file) (Excel spreadsheet)
Team profits and selected payrolls, 1920-50 (Excel spreadsheet)
Do-it-yourself player salary database, 1985-2004: ZIP file of a comma-delimited .CSV database containing player salaries for the past 20 seasons, ready for importation.
Local broadcaster database: ZIP file of a comma-delimited .CSV database containing all known local radio, TV and cable broadcasters, and their stations, since the 1920s.
Financial World and Forbes annual team-by-team
revenue and profit estimates, 1990-2003 (Excel spreadsheet)

Historic MLB Documents
1876 NL Constitution
1903 AL-NL Agreement
1903 National Agreement
1905 World Series Regulations
1921 Major League Agreement
1926 AL Constitution
1945 Major League Agreement

Player salaries by year, 1985-2004 (HTML files)
1985 player salaries
1986 player salaries
1987 player salaries
1988 player salaries
1989 player salaries
1990 player salaries
1991 player salaries
1992 player salaries
1993 player salaries
1994 player salaries
1995 player salaries
1996 player salaries
1997 player salaries
1998 player salaries
1999 player salaries
2000 player salaries
2001 player salaries
2002 player salaries
2003 player salaries
2004 player salaries

Note: Please report any errors in these databases to me.

Documents Relating to the Expos' Investors' RICO Action
Complaint, filed 7/16/2002:
(.PDF version from findlaw.com) (Word version)
MLB Press Release Responding to Complaint (7/16/2002)
( HTML, from mlb.com) (Word version)

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