"Once, we stored our photos and other mementos in shoeboxes in the attic; now we keep them online. That puts our stuff at the mercy of companies that could decide to throw it away -- unless Jason Scott and the Archive Team can get there first."

"Keeneland already has 200,000 Daily Racing Form pages online. It sounds like a lot until you add up the pages that remain. 'We think there's 11 million," Ryder says. "And it's still publishing.'"

"This is how baseball’s archives are created now -- not by merely storing videotapes on a shelf, as it has been done for decades, but by a team of 'loggers' whose job is to watch every game as it happens (2,430 during the regular season, and up to 41 in the postseason) and add computerized notes on every play, no matter how ordinary."

Newspaper page searches (goes through 1922).

Mining archives through a nifty "backstory" project.

See Big Brown (Race Horse), etc. A great example of how to organize and make useful a massive collection of archives.

An amazing trove of sports articles and photographs, including some fantastic racing stuff