[Cusick]

For the most part, I've assembled a database using hard copies which I've collected over a long number of years. Sources like baseball yearbooks - Street & Smith, Sporting News Yearbook, Athlon. Also used annual April issue of Baseball Digest. For on-line resources, SABR membership allows me to use a service called Paper of Record, which gets me to old issues of the Sporting News, which had spring rosters back in time. I believe that tnfoto, the moderator of the main OOTP photo thread, is in the process of hosting some Baseball Digest archives, so there might be some hope for finding some of those April issues on-line there.

I need to distinguish invites to spring training from what I have. I have the published rosters around spring training time. Sometimes additional players get added to the roster. Also, there are non-roster invitees who also arrive in camp, and may appear in spring training games with the major league team.