Parks {Lahman}

Parks table

Description

Name and location data for baseball stadiums.

Usage

data(Parks)

Format

A data frame with 255 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.

Source

Lahman, S. (2023) Lahman's Baseball Database, 1871-2022, 2022 version, https://www.seanlahman.com/baseball-archive/statistics/

See Also

Teams

Examples

data(Parks)
library(dplyr)
# how many parks in each country?
table(Parks$country)

# how many parks in each US state?
Parks %>% 
  filter(country=="US") %>% 
  count(state, sort=TRUE)

# ballparks in NYC
Parks %>% 
  filter(state=="NY") %>% 
  filter(city %in% c("New York", "Brooklyn", "Queens"))

# ballparks in Canada
Parks %>% 
  filter(country=="CA") %>% 
  count(state, sort=TRUE)

# what are the Canadian parks?
Parks %>% 
  dplyr::filter(country=="CA")