opening day rosters

[zappa1]

I am trying to find where I can get opening day rosters for historic MLB teams. I've tried a few sites, baseball-reference and retro sheet. They give me the complete roster but not the opening day 25 man roster. A search only leads me to present day opening day rosters. Baseball-reference and retro sheet will give me the starting lineups, but I want the 25 man rosters. Can anybody direct me to where I can find these. Thanks.

[FatJack]

Originally Posted by zappa1

I am trying to find where I can get opening day rosters for historic MLB teams. I've tried a few sites, baseball-reference and retro sheet. They give me the complete roster but not the opening day 25 man roster. A search only leads me to present day opening day rosters. Baseball-reference and retro sheet will give me the starting lineups, but I want the 25 man rosters. Can anybody direct me to where I can find these. Thanks.

If you're looking for some central repository on the web, well, good luck to ya. Your best bet is the periodical section of your local library as about the only time opening day rosters are published is on opening day in the newspapers associated with the teams (or, in more recent years, in national papers like USA Today...though its worth noting that even those are/were frequently inaccurate).

[RchW]

Originally Posted by FatJack

If you're looking for some central repository on the web, well, good luck to ya. Your best bet is the periodical section of your local library as about the only time opening day rosters are published is on opening day in the newspapers associated with the teams (or, in more recent years, in national papers like USA Today...though its worth noting that even those are/were frequently inaccurate).

Agreed it's not well documented.

Not ideal but you may get close by using BR's 40 man roster and checking box scores and transactions both on BR to figure it out. For example the Dodgers used 14 players opening day 1951. The transactions log shows the players leaving and coming to Brooklyn so it may get most of them via subtraction and addition.


https://www.baseball-reference.com/t...1-roster.shtml
https://www.baseball-reference.com/t...sactions.shtml