baseball-reference.com help, please ...

[jr/shotglass]

I'm looking to make a list of the oldest players in major-league baseball history to go with a Sunday feature on Jamie Moyer. (And, of course, I'm not going to use Wikipedia as a source.)

Does anyone know how to form the query to get that list on baseball-reference.com?

 

[Uncle.Ruckus]

http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/Oldest_leagues.shtml

 

[Uncle.Ruckus]

Another helpful list:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/leaders_most_seasons.shtml

 

[jr/shotglass]

Thanks. That helped immensely.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Wow, 40 was the youngest oldest player every year since the AL formed.

 

[CentralIllinoisan]

Who's going to be the oldest in the AL now that Wakefield is retired?

Nevermind. It's Omar Vizquel. He's 44.

 

[cyclingwriter]

Fun little list to review...I like that Nick Altrock appears five times as the oldest player, but never in consecutive years between 1919 and 1933. He was essentially a coach who would get into a game every few years as a pinch-hitter or emergency pitcher.

 

[Steak Snabler]

How about Jim O'Rourke catching a game at age 53 with the 1904 Giants?

 

[jr/shotglass]

They didn't squat back then.

 

[cyclingwriter]

How about Jim O'Rourke catching a game at age 53 with the 1904 Giants?

I was more impressed he called his son Queenie.

 

[BB Bobcat]

This is actually better...

http://bbref.com/pi/shareit/qbNQQ

The above list just shows the oldest player. So if a guy was second oldest every year, he wouldn't show up. This shows everyone who was at least 43 during his last season.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Fun little list to review...I like that Nick Altrock appears five times as the oldest player, but never in consecutive years between 1919 and 1933. He was essentially a coach who would get into a game every few years as a pinch-hitter or emergency pitcher.

Sportjack, but I saw Mike Dunleavy do that for the Bucks in 1990. He had been retired for like four years and was an assistant coach when they found themselves in a pinch. The game I saw, not only did he play, he attempted the three-pointer that would have tied it against the Knicks. Missed by about five feet.

Six months later he was coaching the Lakers.

 

[Steak Snabler]

This is actually better...

http://bbref.com/pi/shareit/qbNQQ

The above list just shows the oldest player. So if a guy was second oldest every year, he wouldn't show up. This shows everyone who was at least 43 during his last season.

Pretty interesting how most of those guys are either from pre-1920 or pitchers from the last 15 years.