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I've really got no deeper knowledge of baseball, but could it really be possible that several states have no professional team? (Wyoming/North Dakota/South Dako
by wink 11y ago
I've really got no deeper knowledge of baseball, but could it really be possible that several states have no professional team? (Wyoming/North Dakota/South Dakota/Rhode Island)
Not sure how much an absolute scale makes sense, but isn't at least one of the top 3 US national sports?
Minor nitpick: for some of the states it's really hard to discern the borders. And for foreigners like me who don't have all of them memorized... maybe slap the 2 letter abbreviation there as well.
Edit: Cool project, btw :)
- alex_g 11y agothanks for the suggestions! The Pawtucket Red Sox are actually listed in RI, but the other states do not. It definitely feels wrong. I have not entered independent league teams nor college teams, so this will hopefully change! Could you clarify what you meant when you were referring to an absolute scale?
- wink 11y agoSorry, I meant: When people are talking about a nation's favorite/national sport there are often so many measurements that people will probably never agree. So, Baseball, Basketball, Football and Ice Hockey are all pretty big - I would've thought there'd be at least one team per state in the premier/uppermost league :)
- alex_g 11y agogotcha! Yeah it's disappointing, but it's all about supply and demand. If there's no baseball market, no baseball teams for hundreds of miles. Whereas you can see on the map the gulf coast of FL, NYC, and even LA have multiple teams within miles of each other.