BaseballReference.com Sponsorships

Anyone else ever done this?

Provided you're not looking to sponsor Sandy Koufax or someone like that, I can't think of a better way to spend $5-20 a year. I've taken out three: Tom Henke, Ed Armbrister (if the name means nothing, you're younger than I am), and--the big jackpot, the reason I'm posting--Joe Schultz, whom I nabbed yesterday. (I'd tried before, but someone had it at the time.) I thought I had Bouton's page last year, but there was some kind of mix-up in availability. Anyway, the total cost for Henke, Armbrister, and Schultz is $20 for the year. I make use of the site constantly (especially for the HOF Monitor tracking), so besides the immeasurable ego boost of having my named linked publically to Joe Schultz, it seems like a fair trade.

no, this has never occurred to me! so what's your reasoning - just 'cause it's cool?

1) It's an amazing site that I use a lot; 2) I like their system of keeping the site financially viable; 3) It's cool! Anytime someone looks up Tom Henke's career stats, they find out that the page is sponsored by me. I also really like that it's affordable to anyone--if you want to spend hundreds of dollars to sponsor the Ruth or Mays page, you can, but you can also spend $5 and sponsor the Ed Armbrister page. I was curious about the most expensive available pages for active players, and they're A.J. Burnett at $105 and Ivan Rodriguez at $100...??? I understand the Yankee angle, but what sane person values A.J. Burnett more than I-Rod?

huh. maybe they base pricing on click-throughs?

lol at the Henke page! i didn't know you were a closet J's fan!

or - if i did i forgot.

I don't know sponsoring a player might be cool, but if I'm going to sponsor something that 99.9% of the world will ever know about, I'd spend $20 and name a star after myself. Or name it "Karl Malone", or whatever.

i didn't know you were a closet J's fan!

Sometimes even out of the closet. My friends and I were sitting in Mr. Lightfoot's history class in '77 with a radio when Doug Ault hit his two home runs. I tuned out during university, jumped back on the bandwagon in '83, lived and died with them for the next decade, and then, perfectly timed with their descent into the wilderness, turned my attention to the new wave of talent and suddenly amazing offensive numbers being put up in '94. They've fooled me a couple of times since then, but basically this is one dormant franchise. Hard to believe how well-run and vital they were from '83 to '93; like the song says, you don't know what you've got till it's gone. I imagine fans in Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and K.C. can relate.