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Name and location data for baseball stadiums.

Usage

data(Parks)

Format

A data frame with 260 observations on the following 6 variables.

park.key

unique identifier for each ballpark

park.name

the name of the ballpark

park.alias

a semicolon delimited list of other names for the ballpark if they exist

city

city where the ballpark is located

state

state where the ballpark is located

country

country where the ballpark is located

Details

This dataset apparently includes all ballparks that were ever used in baseball. There is no indication of the years they were used, nor the teams that played there.

The ballparks can be associated with teams through the park variable in the Teams table.

See also

Source

Lahman, S. (2024) Lahman's Baseball Database, 1871-2023, 2023 version, http://www.seanlahman.com/

Examples

data(Parks)
library(dplyr)
# how many parks in each country?
table(Parks$country)
#> 
#>  AU  CA  JP  MX  PR  UK  US 
#>   1   4   1   2   1   1 250 

# how many parks in each US state?
Parks %>% 
  filter(country=="US") %>% 
  count(state, sort=TRUE)
#>    state  n
#> 1     NY 41
#> 2     OH 33
#> 3     PA 24
#> 4     MO 16
#> 5     IL 12
#> 6     MA 12
#> 7     DC 11
#> 8     MD 11
#> 9     CA 10
#> 10    NJ 10
#> 11    IN  9
#> 12    KY  6
#> 13    MI  6
#> 14    TX  6
#> 15    WI  6
#> 16    CT  5
#> 17    FL  5
#> 18    MN  4
#> 19    GA  3
#> 20    RI  3
#> 21    WA  3
#> 22    CO  2
#> 23    DE  2
#> 24    IA  2
#> 25    VA  2
#> 26    AZ  1
#> 27    HI  1
#> 28    NC  1
#> 29    NE  1
#> 30    NV  1
#> 31    WV  1

# ballparks in NYC
Parks %>% 
  filter(state=="NY") %>% 
  filter(city %in% c("New York", "Brooklyn", "Queens"))
#>                 park.alias park.key                           park.name
#> 1                     <NA>    NYC01                       Union Grounds
#> 2                     <NA>    NYC02                  Capitoline Grounds
#> 3                     <NA>    NYC03  Polo Grounds I (Southeast Diamond)
#> 4                     <NA>    NYC04 Polo Grounds II (Southwest Diamond)
#> 5                     <NA>    NYC05                   Washington Park I
#> 6                     <NA>    NYC06                   Metropolitan Park
#> 7         Ridgewood Park I    NYC07             Grauer's Ridgewood Park
#> 8                     <NA>    NYC08                  Washington Park II
#> 9                     <NA>    NYC09                    Polo Grounds III
#> 10                    <NA>    NYC10                     Polo Grounds IV
#> 11                    <NA>    NYC11                        Eastern Park
#> 12                    <NA>    NYC12                 Washington Park III
#> 13                    <NA>    NYC13                        Hilltop Park
#> 14                    <NA>    NYC14                      Polo Grounds V
#> 15                    <NA>    NYC15                        Ebbets Field
#> 16                    <NA>    NYC16                    Yankee Stadium I
#> 17 William A. Shea Stadium    NYC17                        Shea Stadium
#> 18       Ridgewood Park II    NYC18            Wallace's Ridgewood Park
#> 19                    <NA>    NYC19                  Washington Park IV
#> 20                    <NA>    NYC20                          Citi Field
#> 21                    <NA>    NYC21                   Yankee Stadium II
#> 22                    <NA>    SAI01          St. George Cricket Grounds
#>        city state country
#> 1  Brooklyn    NY      US
#> 2  Brooklyn    NY      US
#> 3  New York    NY      US
#> 4  New York    NY      US
#> 5  Brooklyn    NY      US
#> 6  New York    NY      US
#> 7    Queens    NY      US
#> 8  Brooklyn    NY      US
#> 9  New York    NY      US
#> 10 New York    NY      US
#> 11 Brooklyn    NY      US
#> 12 Brooklyn    NY      US
#> 13 New York    NY      US
#> 14 New York    NY      US
#> 15 Brooklyn    NY      US
#> 16 New York    NY      US
#> 17 New York    NY      US
#> 18   Queens    NY      US
#> 19 Brooklyn    NY      US
#> 20 New York    NY      US
#> 21 New York    NY      US
#> 22 New York    NY      US

# ballparks in Canada
Parks %>% 
  filter(country=="CA") %>% 
  count(state, sort=TRUE)
#>   state n
#> 1    ON 2
#> 2    QC 2

# what are the Canadian parks?
Parks %>% 
  dplyr::filter(country=="CA")
#>        park.alias park.key          park.name     city state country
#> 1      Jarry Park    MON01         Parc Jarry Montreal    QC      CA
#> 2 Olympic Stadium    MON02    Stade Olympique Montreal    QC      CA
#> 3            <NA>    TOR01 Exhibition Stadium  Toronto    ON      CA
#> 4         Skydome    TOR02      Rogers Centre  Toronto    ON      CA