Keywords: MLB slugging history.svg Major League Baseball slugging average and contributions to slugging average from top to bottom home runs triples doubles and singles; highlighted area is the dead-ball era 1900-1918 inclusive Own Grabsomepine 2008-06-01 The data is league-wide and is a cumulative sum of the following terms 1B/AB 2 2B/AB 3 3B/AB 4 HR/AB 1B single 2B double 3B triple HR home run AB at bat Note that the American League data does not start until the creation of the American League in 1901 Historical Major League Baseball data is freely available from many sources online This data was taken from http //www baseball-reference com Baseball-Reference com http //www baseball-reference com/leagues/AL shtml http //www baseball-reference com/leagues/NL shtml accessed June 1 2008 The file was created in Gnuplot with the following code set terminal svg enhanced size 640 480 fname Helvetica fsize 12 set output MLB_slugging_history svg set style line 1 linetype 1 pointtype 0 linewidth 2 linecolor 6 set style line 2 linetype 1 pointtype 0 linewidth 2 linecolor 7 set style line 3 linetype 1 pointtype 0 linewidth 2 linecolor 8 set style line 4 linetype 1 pointtype 0 linewidth 2 linecolor 2 set style line 5 linetype 1 pointtype 0 linewidth 2 linecolor 21 set style line 6 linetype 1 pointtype 0 linewidth 2 linecolor 11 set style line 7 linetype 1 pointtype 0 linewidth 2 linecolor 17 set style line 8 linetype 1 pointtype 0 linewidth 2 linecolor 9 set xrange 1890 2008 set yrange 0 0 5 set format y 3f set xlabel Year set ylabel Contribution to slugging average set key top center horizontal plot \ datafile1 u 1 4 15+3 14+2 13+ 12 t HR w filledcurves x1 linestyle 1 \ datafile1 u 1 3 14+2 13+ 12 t 3B w filledcurves x1 linestyle 2 \ datafile1 u 1 2 13+ 12 t 2B w filledcurves x1 linestyle 3 \ datafile1 u 1 12 t 1B w filledcurves x1 linestyle 4 \ datafile2 u 1 4 15+3 14+2 13+ 12 notitle w filledcurves x1 linestyle 5 \ datafile2 u 1 3 14+2 13+ 12 notitle w filledcurves x1 linestyle 6 \ datafile2 u 1 2 13+ 12 notitle w filledcurves x1 linestyle 7 \ datafile2 u 1 12 notitle w filledcurves x1 linestyle 8 Major League Baseball diagrams Area charts |