Starting in 1995, he made this database freely available for download from the Internet, helping to launch a new era of baseball research by making the raw data available to everyone.
[12] He later sold the website to Total Sports and became senior editor for that company's print publishing division.
It was later reborn as Baseball-Reference.com,[13] [14] and Lahman resurrected the Baseball Archive website as a platform to continue the free distribution of his database.
[20] In the late 1990s, Lahman launched the Football Project, an effort to collect, digitize, and distribute play-by-play accounts from NFL games back to 1920.
[24] His 2018 reporting on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's campaign fundraising[25] won the Associated Press First Amendment award.