David W. Vincent

David W. Vincent (born July 26, 1949) is an American baseball official scorer, statistician, and historian. He is called "The Sultan of Swats Stats" by ESPN and is often quoted by Major League Baseball, ESPN, Fox, USA Today, and by many other media outlets regarding the history of the home run. A long-time member of SABR, he keeps SABR's official home run statistics, and was presented with the organization's highest honor, the Bob Davids Award, in 1999. Vincent is also an official scorer for the Washington Nationals and the founding secretary of Retrosheet, which is collecting play-by-play accounts of every game in major league history. Vincent is a computer programmer for a major multi-national corporation and lives in Centerville, Virginia.

Vincent has written several books including:

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