Spring is here, bringing with it breezy days, cool nights, and the all-American sport of baseball. On the Net, you'll find sites for professional, college, high school, minor league, and even youth league baseball, and that's just the beginning.  

Major League Baseball MLB@BAT is the official website for major league baseball. The site features clubs for both the American and National leagues, a clubhouse shop, spring training '97, and a special tribute to Jackie Robinson. Each week, a Minor League team is highlighted with feature stories, player profiles and merchandise information. You can even order instructional videos to help you play like a pro. http://www.majorleaguebaseball.com/ 

Hungry for statistics on your favorite team or players? Baseball StatsWeb is the place for you. The site features a searchable database of all players in history, attendance figures, players' salaries, batters, pitchers, and much more. http://www.baseballstats.com/ 

The Official Site of the Negro Baseball Leagues contains a history of the leagues, teams, players, and an NL shop. http://www.majorleaguebaseball.com/nbl/ 

The Baseball Server features a spring training schedule, the latest news in baseball, a baseball calendar, team schedules, information on the American and National leagues, standings, transactions, and even a record book. http://www2.nando.net/SportServer/baseball/ 

USA Today's Baseball Weekly contains major league news, equipment and training guides, and college ball information. http://www.usatoday.com/bbwfront.htm 

FANLINK - The Home of Minor League Baseball on the Internet! features team and league indexes, Baseball America, schedules, scores, and statistics. http://www.fanlink.com/

Search Sport is a search engine just for sports.http://www.oldsport.com/search/intro.htm

College Baseball Pages, broken down by conferences: http://www.utexas.edu/students/mohill/baseball/colpages.html

Yahoo's list of college and university baseball teams: http://www.yahoo.com/Recreation/Sports/Baseball/
College_and_University/Teams/

Talk with other baseball fans at the Baseball Chat page. http://www.4-lane.com/sportschat/newsc/bb_index.html

Trade baseball cards at Sports Card Depot. http://carddepot.com/

The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) boasts as being the world's largest sports research organization. http://www.sabr.org/

At the CBS SportsLine Fantasy Baseball '97 site, you can draft your own team and play baseball over the Internet. They're offering a 30-day free trial membership, and after that, the cost is $4.95 per month or $39.95 per year. http://ps1.sportsline.com/u/baseball/fantasycenter/index.html

Next week, we'll search for Christian and Easter sites on the Net. See you then!

Robin Nobles is a freelance writer who can be reached at robinnobles@robinsnest.com.

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