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organizations, daily customized data streams on upcoming opponents and players of interest reveal trends, insights, and milestones based on historical performance. Elias, for instance, has digitized the records and box scores of games going as far back as 1876 for Major League
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in New York City. The Bureau's methods of collection and presentation of statistics set the form and precedent for recording baseball information, and has influenced the universal collection and presentation of other sports’ leagues information ever since.
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daily newspaper began publishing the Bureau's weekly compilation of batting and pitching averages and league leaders. In 1916, Elias was named the official statistician of the
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