George Herman Ruth

Source: R/AgainStart.R

Baseball statistics for George Herman Ruth (The Bambino or the Sultan of Swat)

BABERUTH

Format

A data frame with 22 observation of the following 14 variables:

  • year (year in which the season occurred)

  • team (team for which he played Bos-A, Bos-N, or NY-A)

  • g (games played)

  • ab (at bats)

  • r (runs scored)

  • h (hits)

  • X2b (doubles)

  • X3b (triples)

  • hr (home runs)

  • RBI (runs batted in)

  • sb (stolen bases)

  • bb (base on balls or walks)

  • ba (batting average = h/ab)

  • slg (slugging percentage = total bases/at bats)

References

Ugarte, M. D., Militino, A. F., and Arnholt, A. T. 2015. Probability and Statistics with R, Second Edition. Chapman & Hall / CRC.

Examples

ggplot(data = BABERUTH, aes(x = ba)) + geom_histogram(binwidth = 0.03) + 
facet_grid(team ~ .) + labs(x = "Batting average")

ggplot(data = BABERUTH, aes(x = g, y = ab, color = rbi)) + geom_point() + 
labs(x = "Number of Games Played", y = "Times at Bat", color = "Runs\n Batted In", 
title = "George Herman Ruth")