About the Metro New Orleans Area Baseball Players Database Database Version Version Release Date V21.1 1/8/2021 Criteria for including players in the Metro New Orleans Area Baseball Players database Players in this database attended a New Orleans area high school (including Orleans Parish, Jefferson Parish, River Parishes, North Shore) and later played college baseball, were drafted professionally, played in the Minor Leagues, or played in the Major Leagues. Players who were born in the New Orleans area, but did not play high school there, are not included. Players at New Orleans area colleges are not included unless they also played high school baseball in New Orleans area high schools. Database Maintenance The source of player's Major League, Minor League and Professional Draft information is Baseball-Reference.com. College media guides and websites are generally used to provide player's birthplace, high school, birthdate, and years played at college. The Times-Picayune is used to validate player's high school team. This database is an ongoing work-in-progress project. It is acknowledged that it is not complete or free of error at any point in time. At the beginning of this document is a list of the players who were added or deleted in this version. The total number of players in this version is 1,750 The major updates in this version came from former players and reviews of old Times-Picayune articles. Database additions, updates, and corrections should be directed to Richard Cuicchi at
[email protected]. Requests for additional sorting or formatting of the player database can be directed to the same email address.