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    Not age appropriate for kids under 8, age appropriate for kids over 10; suggested age 12.

  • Is it any good?

    4.0

  • Common Sense says

    Stats, news, history, games, forums, and more!

Why We Rated This on for Ages 12 and Up

The good stuff

  • Educational value:

    There's so much baseball history, statistics, news, interviews, trivia, games, issues discussion, and current events that it's hard to imagine any baseball fan could exhaust all there is to learn about the sport on this site.
 

What to watch out for

  • Messages:

    There's an element of idolizing professional baseball players that may be difficult for young kids to put into perspective. When becoming a member of the all-ages message boards, users are encouraged to include date of birth, email address, where they live, and other personal info in their profile. Private messaging is allowed if you don't turn off the function.

  • Violence:

    Not an issue.

  • Sex:

    Not an issue.

  • Language:

    Not an issue.

  • Consumerism:

    This site solicits donations from users and claims to be a "privately held, non-commercial site, in need of financial assistance," but there are ads -- including annoying moving banner ads.

  • Drinking, drugs, & smoking:

    Not an issue.
 

What Parents Need to Know

About Baseball-Almanac

Parents need to know that this site has an amazing 300,000 pages of baseball stats, facts, history, news, forums, games and information in one place. There are also many of ads (contrary to the claim that it's a non-commercial site), some of which blend into the site's content. And, users are encouraged to give personal information when signing up and on their profiles. In the boards, certain inappropriate words do get blanked out with stars, but kids can send/receive private messages from other users and post their IM screen names and personal Web site addresses if they want.

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Families Can Talk About

  • Families can talk about how to use statistics to learn about baseball, and how historic interviews, photos, and collections of facts tells a larger story. This site provides many real-world math and history lessons.
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