If you like this, you may want to also take a look at Retrosheet [1]. They've taken amazing effort to get pitch-by-pitch data for baseball games since professional baseball became a thing in the 19th century. I don't know a ton about RetroSheet admittedly, but I do know they have great coverage and are willing to pay money to get paper documents from people about games they haven't yet entered into their database.
Baseball has a load of resources like this! Besides FanGraphs and Baseball-Reference (both offer some historical data download ability but have more advanced stats you’ll have to scrape yourself), the MLB offers an API to get pitch-by-pitch data on stuff like release point, ball launch angle, ball spin axis, etc. There’s also plenty more info on baseball-savant that is scrapeable.
In a similar vein, for Australian Rules football, there is the unbelievable AFL Tables [1]. There are the headline statistics you'd expect, but it also has really detailed, player-specific statistics for each match. The records - although they are incomplete - go back to 1897.
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[1] https://afltables.com/afl/afl_index.html