FOXSports.com Launches Major League Baseball Fact-Finding Service Provided by Fact City.Business/Technology Editors NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 11, 2000 Delivers Millions of Instant Major League Baseball "MLB" and "Major Leagues" redirect here. For other uses, see MLB (disambiguation) and Major Leagues (disambiguation). Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. Facts and Statistics From 1876 to Present FOXSports.com, a division of News Corporation's (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : NWS NWS National Weather Service NWS Naval Weapons Station NWS New World Symphony NWS Nuclear Weapon State NWS Not Work Safe NWS National Watercolor Society NWS North Warning System NWS Nose Wheel Steering NWS National Waste Strategy (UK) ) News Digital Media and Fact City, the only fact-finding engine for Internet search engines and portals, today announced the debut of the "Sports Geniuses Sports Search" on the FOXSports.com site. The innovative feature, developed by Fact City, enables FOXSports.com to offer the first way to find millions of instant Major League Baseball statistics on every player and team from 1876 to present simply by submitting a question. FOXSports.com and Fact City will continue to work together and expand the service to encompass all major sports by Fall 2000. Fact City is an add-on service that enhances the user experience by delivering direct facts and statistics--not hyperlinks to other sites. Located at sportssearch.foxsports.com, FOXSports.com's "Sports Geniuses Sports Search" includes current Major League Baseball statistics and facts from 1876 to the present, plus daily updates throughout the 2000 season. STATS, Inc., the nation's leading provider of sports information and analysis, supplies Fact City the data that helps FOXSports.com deliver to baseball fans and sports historians a powerful, accurate and easy-to-use tool unlike any other available. "FOXSports.com's 'Sports Geniuses Sports Search' and our unparalleled baseball almanac almanac, originally, a calendar with notations of astronomical and other data. Almanacs have been known in simple form almost since the invention of writing, for they served to record religious feasts, seasonal changes, and the like. combine to offer the most complete baseball statistical information on the Internet," said FOXSports.com Senior Vice President, Danny Greenberg. "Utilizing the strengths and technology of Fact City and STATS, Inc., our users can ask baseball related questions and tap into hundreds of thousands of pages of baseball stats on any player, past or present." Here is a sample of the kinds of questions "Sports Geniuses Sports Search" can answer: -- Who won the 1904 World Series? In 1904, there was no post-season because the National League Champion New York Giants
-- How many strikeouts has Jose Canseco had in his career? Jose Canseco struck out 1,765 times in 1,713 games in his batting career (1985-1999). Jose Canseco struck out 0 batters in 1 appearance in his pitching career (1993-1993). -- How many walks, hits and strikeouts did Sammy Sosa Samuel Sosa Peralta (born November 12 1968 in San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic) is a designated hitter for the Texas Rangers of the American League. His Major League career began when he broke in with the Texas Rangers in 1989. have in 1999? Sammy Sosa had 78 walks, 180 hits and 171 strikeouts in 1999. For his career, Sosa has 428 walks, 1,413 hits and 1,369 strikeouts. "Fact City enables FOXSports.com to offer sports fans new, interactive content that consumers will return to again and again," said Eric Ziering, president and founder of Fact City. "Moreover, Fact City will continue to rapidly integrate its fact-finding service into a wide range of Web sites and Internet search engines, and deliver facts and statistics on popular subjects such as music, movies, business and more." "By supplying consumers with direct answers to their questions--not a listing of hyperlinks like most other search tools--Fact City helps consumers get their answers faster," said Guy Creese, Senior Analyst, Aberdeen Group Aberdeen Group is a provider of business-related research services. It has its headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts and belongs to the Harte-Hanks group. Founded in 1988, Aberdeen's research is used by over 2. . "Fact City thereby avoids the `click yet again' characteristic of hyperlinks that can prolong pro·long tr.v. pro·longed, pro·long·ing, pro·longs 1. To lengthen in duration; protract. 2. To lengthen in extent. the search process for consumers and ultimately lead them away from the site of origin. Fact City provides affiliates with a search service that offers popular facts and statistics and helps keep consumers at the affiliate's site." FOXSports.com's "Sports Geniuses Sports Search" provides inclusive statistics on: -- players (batting side, throwing hand, years played, birth date, uniform number, height, weight, etc.) -- player performance (all major batting, fielding and pitching stats) -- teams (city, nickname, league, division, park name, park surface, etc.) -- team performance (season record, wins, losses, batting, fielding, pitching, and breakdowns by home, away, versus left or right handed pitching, on grass and turf, etc.) -- post-season play (World Series, league, and division winners and losers) About FOXSports.com FOXSports.com, a division of News Corporation's (NYSE: NWS) News Digital Media, is the fastest growing sports site and the premier destination on the Internet for up-to-the-minute stats, news and scores for all professional, college and high school sports. Unlike any other sports site, FOXSports.com features: 18 regional sites covering local sports news and teams across the country, FOXSportsBiz.com, the definitive source for sports business news, and the FOX Sports Fantasy Network, one of the Web's most active fantasy sports A fantasy sport (also known as rotisserie, roto, or fairy-tale sport; or owner simulation) is a game where fantasy owners build a team that competes against other fantasy owners based on the statistics generated by individual players or teams of a professional sport. leagues. Additionally, FOXSports.com owns STATS, Inc., the leading provider of statistical information, delivering the most comprehensive player, team, game and situational information on the Web. About STATS, Inc. STATS, Inc. is owned by News Digital Media, the producer of FOXSports.com and the digital division of News Corporation (NYSE: NWS). STATS operates a Member's Choice area on America Online See AOL. (Keyword: "STATS") with real-time electronic scoreboards covering all major sports plus rich statistical offerings and in-depth analysis. STATS offers a virtual fantasy sports playground on the World Wide Web at www.stats.com where sports fans can play games and obtain up-to-the-minute information on their favorite team or player. STATS also publishes 12 pro sports annuals and two all-inclusive baseball encyclopedias This article contains a list of encyclopedias, including projects to create new works. Because the number of works that can be considered encyclopedias is very large, this list does not attempt to be comprehensive. . In addition, STATS provides timely and innovative sports information to an extensive list of commercial clients including FOX Sports, Alta Vista See AltaVista. (World-Wide Web) Alta Vista - A World-Wide Web site provided by Digital which features a very fast Web and Usenet search engine. As of April 1996 its word index is 33GB in size. , ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network , MSNBC MSNBC Microsoft/National Broadcasting Company , The Sporting News, EA Sports and the Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. . About Fact City Founded in 1999, Fact City is the Internet's only fact-finding engine. Its service enables Internet portals, search engines and vertical Web sites to provide visitors with straight answers to factual questions. Unlike search technologies that respond to queries with hyperlinks or related questions, Fact City responds to English-language questions with specific facts. Fact City is not a destination site. It is a repeat-use service that enhances the search capabilities of portals and other Web destinations, attracting advertising revenue. For content providers, Fact City is a new distribution channel providing promotion and sales opportunities to a vast Web audience. Fact City is headquartered in Waltham, Mass. For more information, go to www.factcity.com. |
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