Clement Comly, IV (December 31, 1954 – August 6, 2014) was a baseball researcher, author and statistician.
Comly earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering and a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Pennsylvania.
[1] He served as the vice president of Retrosheet from 2004 to 2013 and did extensive data entry work for the organization.
[2][3] He co-authored numerous books, including The Year of Blue Snow: The 1964 Philadelphia Phillies, Sweet '60: The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates and The Miracle Braves of 1914: Boston's Original Worst-to-First World Series Champions.
[4] He was a member of the Society for American Baseball Research, joining in 1982 and serving as co-chair of the Statistical Analysis Committee.