StrikeIron announced it has extended its sports offering with the addition of Major League Baseball (MLB) data from The Sports Network (TSN). The TSN Major League Baseball Web Service enables users to acquire up-to-date information on America’s favorite pastime including league, team and individual player coverage via an easy-to-integrate Web Services/XML API. The Sports Network is the nation’s foremost international real-time sports wire service and the leader in providing complete sports data.

“Baseball is a sport driven by stats, scores and summaries,” stated Ken Zajac, director of sales for The Sports Network. “StrikeIron gives fans the ability to rapidly develop social applications, mobile alerts and much more to create new, innovative experiences for the Web 2.0 fan.”

TSN’s Major League Baseball Web Service is the second of many sports offerings to come through StrikeIron’s Marketplace. Some of the key features of this offering include:

• Accessibility to a broad array of statistical categories for both pitching and batting
• Cumulative statistics by individual players for all key categories
• Real-time sports data news and scores with batter-by-batter updates every sixty seconds
• Drill down capabilities to track data by player, team or league
• Delivery of data through an easy-to-use XML format that can easily integrate into widgets, badges, gadgets, Web applications and mashups.

For more on this service, please visit: www.strikeiron.com/TSNMLB

“Providing real-time sports data is just another example of the power of our platform. Just about any data source can be aggregated and provided as an easy-to-integrate data service that will in turn drive a whole new category of innovation”, stated Bob Brauer, CEO and founder of StrikeIron. “We’re excited to deliver yet another data source to a whole new audience who can develop new ways to monetize it with social applications, widgets and fan-driven Web sites as examples.”