D3baseball.com Daily Dose

For many years, people have asked when I would be doing D3baseball.com. The answer was always “never.”

There were many reasons, and a couple of excuses.

For many years, I worked at Baseball Weekly. While that didn’t have any conflict with running D3hoops.com and D3football.com, it could be perceived as a conflict of interest to be running a baseball Web site on the side.

Compiling scores for Division III baseball teams would be impossible, I would tell people. There are 365 or so schools playing Division III baseball. They play 40 games. That in and of itself wouldn’t be so impossible if it weren’t for the fact that you can’t count on games to be played when scheduled.

Darn weather.

I wouldn’t have time to run a Division III baseball site, I would say. I value my offseason, which starts at the end of March and runs through the beginning of July or so. When would I see my family?

But then Jim Dixon approached me in the middle of 2006 with the solution to all of those problems. (Or most of them, anyway.) And now Jim’s site, which you knew previously as Division III Baseball Online, has joined the D3sports.com family and has been renamed D3baseball.com.

I don’t work at Baseball Weekly anymore. (Heck, Baseball Weekly doesn’t really exist anymore.) Jim runs the site. And schedules and results … well, we still won’t be tracking them. Our partnership with D3Scoreboard.com will give us an outlet to print scores for some conferences — just the conferences that subscribe to D3Scoreboard.com — starting in 2008.

And so here we are, at D3baseball.com. Jim Dixon is the managing editor of the site and is responsible for its content. Ryan Coleman has been building the technology for the site and I’ll handle the administration end and contribute to building out the database of information on each school.

And you, the fans, will flock — we hope. Spread the word. Make sure your fellow Division III baseball fans know we’re here. Because I think this is going to be a lot of fun.