Comments on: Retrosheet Baseball Mysql database download

By: David Pinto

David Pinto — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:17:58 +0000

Darrell,

I have through 2008 loaded on my machine. Is there a way of just loading 2009 data into the existing MySQL database?

By: Stephen Varga

Stephen Varga — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:44:58 +0000

Thanks a lot for this, really awesome! I am doing a thesis project that uses this data and I’m really excited not to have to recompile all this again with the 2009 data. Is playoff data included in your database?

By: Derek Carty

Derek Carty — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:48:56 +0000

Found it, Darrell. Never mind, and thanks again for putting this together.

http://chadwick.sourceforge.net/chapter1.html#cwevent-expanded-event-descriptor

By: Derek Carty

Derek Carty — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:47:12 +0000

Thanks, Darrell.

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:37:39 +0000

Good to know. I dropped the baseball database and created the retrosheet database.

So here is the syntax I’m using for the import:
mysql -uroot -pmahler -hlocalhost retrosheet < retrosheet.sql

The sql is saved on my C: drive and in the bin folder where mysql.exe is stored.

Still getting a syntax error. Can you see the error in my command line? If not, I wonder if it's my install.
Thanks!

By: Darrell

Darrell — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:18:08 +0000

Rich,
The top 20 lines of the retrosheet file has a USE ‘retrosheet’ line. You need to change that to ‘baseball’ or remove it all together and put baseball in your connection string. The file is huge so this might not be the best way. 4 GB in notepad doesn’t fly. It is a pain in VI also.

mysql -uusername -ppassword -hlocalhost baseball < retrosheet.sql

The other way of doing it is to import the entire database as retrosheet database. When it is done turn off the mysql database and copy the database directory from retrosheet to baseball. Start mysql, and connect to it with your favorite editor. If the database baseball is there drop database retrosheet. Seems like few steps, but I do it this way when playing around with it.

Darrell

By: Darrell

Darrell — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:02:56 +0000

I will have to get my brother to look into this for you. He uses the database, I just make the bastard child.

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:59:08 +0000

I recently insalled mysql 5.1 and am attempting to run the command to import the SQL script, however I keep getting an error using the syntax above. My database is called “baseball” and I’m using the root userid. Any help in importing would be greatly appreciated.

By: Derek Carty

Derek Carty — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:44:37 +0000

This is awesome, Darrell. Have you posted an explanation file for the fields that aren’t in the usual Retrosheet files? Fields 97 and beyond? I can guess at some of them but others I’m not entirely sure about.

Thanks!

By: Nick Steiner

Nick Steiner — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:52:27 +0000

Darrel, I love you.