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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Thursday, August 09, 2012BtBS: Gentile: WAR Across AmericaThis is My*T*Fine on a grand goofiness scale…but then again I feel the same way about occasional Constant Mongrel droppings.
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1. Rally Posted: August 09, 2012 at 10:40 AM (#4204211)Good idea though.
I'm putting my money on Donora, Pa.
New York's a big state too, but it would be interesting to see how that region did over time. My guess is most of the WAR from NYS is coming from the early days, before professional baseball was played in other places.
Alabama has all of those guys beat: 1800+ in WAR, 4.8 million in population.
It beats Florida in WAR alone.
That seems like a good guess :p I was thinking more at the state level myself on the per capita front, at least.
#8: That's true, and actually a WAR/capita over time would be even more interesting to see (i.e., whether more players began as cities expanded or as the country expanded or where the threshold was or whatever).
The Narrows, GA - the former birthplace of Ty Cobb is essentially unincorporated territory.
Also, it uses the town of each player's High School, which is usually a more accurate way of determining where a player is from. This way, Roger Clemens doesn't count towards Ohio, and Joe Morgan doesn't count towards Texas, etc.
Some serious backwoods stuff.
I'd be curious to see the position player/pitcher split by state. OK would be incredibly position player heavy - it's got Mantle, Bench, Stargell, the Waner brothers, and a bunch of other guys who were at least really good as hitters, but its best pitcher (by a good margin) is Allie Reynolds.
In the comment section the author has a link to a google doc of state WAR per 2011 population.
Tops are DC (0.42 WAR per 1000 people), PA (0.40), MO (0.38). Bottom are MT (0.03), UT (0.02), NV (0.02).
That should be better in a few years.
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