YE REQUIREMENTS
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Chadwick 0.6.2 http://chadwick.sourceforge.net/
python 2.5+ (don't know about 3.0, sorry)
sqlalchemy: http://www.sqlalchemy.org/
[if using postgres] pyscopg2 python package (dependency for sqlalchemy)

1. create database called 'retrosheet'
2. add schema to the database w/ the included SQL script (the .postgres.sql one works nicely w/ PG, the other w/ MySQL)
3. configure the file db.ini with your appropriate ENGINE, USER, HOST, PASSWORD, DATABASE values - if yer using postgres, you can optionally define SCHEMA and download directory
   valid values for ENGINE are valid sqlalchemy engines e.g. 'mysql', 'postgresql' or 'sqlite'
   if you have your server configured to allow passwordless connections, you don't need to define USER and PASSWORD
   if you are using sqlite3, 'database' in the config should be the path to your database file
   specify directory for retrosheet files to be downloaded to, needs to exist before script runs
4. run download.py to download the files from retrosheet's servers (optionally use --year=XXXX to get only a certain year)
5. run parse.py to parse the files and insert the data into the database. (optionally use -y XXXX to import just one year)

YE GRATITUDE
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Github user jeffcrow made many fixes and additions and added sqlite support

JUST THE DATA
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If you're using PostgreSQL (and you should be), you can get a dump of all data up through 2013 (warning: 492MB):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hmxjsjbeurxtu2s/retrosheet.sql.gz