MLB Records and Stats vs Padel Snipe

This entry documents MLB's own `statsapi.mlb.com` backend -- the same undocumented, keyless JSON API that powers MLB.com and its official apps -- covering teams, rosters, schedules, box scores, standings, and decades of historical stats, reverse-engineered and mirrored in the community `mlb-data-api-docs` reference. There's no official support or SLA since MLB never published it as a public product, but it has stayed stable and free for years. A live probe of the real host returned data with no API key and a wildcard `Access-Control-Allow-Origin`, resolving `cors: unknown -> yes` and correcting `https: false -> true` -- the stored `false` was stale, the host is https-only.

Padel Snipe indexes roughly 4,000 padel clubs -- courts, GPS coordinates, and booking-platform source -- spanning 34 countries, concentrated in Italy, Spain, the UK, and France but reaching as far as the US and parts of Central America, a wider footprint than the handful of European markets sometimes cited for it. The single `/api/world/clubs` endpoint needs no key, returns JSON or CSV behind a 24-hour CDN cache, and is licensed CC BY 4.0 so results can be reused commercially with attribution.