OT: Seeking Data Sources for a Newbie!

[Ericc22]

Greetings,

Figured I'd try posting this to Net54, as I seem to get so much else from this forum!

I am looking for a very easy to use data source for baseball stats. Eg, I want to easily download seasonal data for the pitchers who threw the most innings in 1909. In addition I'd like to download career info for those same players including stats like black ink, gray ink, and hall of fame standard/monitor.

I am not a programmer! I prefer simplicity and am willing to pay $ to get access to an easier to access source. I plan to bring the data into Excel as it is the analytical tool I can use well.

I have been through an number of sites. Baseball-reference.com for example has the data I need but I have yet to figure out how to download it easily. Through baseball-reference.com I found Lahman's database: http://baseball1.com/statistics/. This data set seems a bit bulky for me to use (or is it as good as it gets and I need to figure it out?).

Any and all help is most appreciated!

Eric