Any site that has historical box scores?

[ropjhk]

Does anybody know of any website that has boxscores from before the 1985-1986 season? Basketball-reference only goes back to that season.

[floppymoose]

This is probably not what you want, because it only works for one game at a time... but if there is a particular game you want a boxscore for, you can sometimes find it using google news search when you restrict the date of the search to way back when. They have some scanned newspapers online, some of the free, and you can find old fashioned newspaper box scores. Example:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-W ... %2C2310623

[Doctor MJ]

For old NBA finals games, this is a hidden gem:

http://webuns.chez-alice.fr/home.htm