Sashelp Data Sets

Baseball Data

The Sashelp.Baseball data set contains salary and performance information for Major League Baseball players (excluding pitchers) who played at least one game in both the 1986 and 1987 seasons (Time Inc. 1987). The salaries are for the 1987 season, and the performance measures are from the 1986 season. The following steps display information about the Sashelp.Baseball data set and create Figure B.1:

title 'Baseball Data';
proc contents data=sashelp.Baseball varnum;
   ods select position;
run;

title 'The First Five Observations Out of 322';
proc print data=sashelp.Baseball(obs=5);
run;

Figure B.1: Baseball Data

Baseball Data

Variables in Creation Order
#	Variable	Type	Len	Label
1	Name	Char	18	Player's Name
2	Team	Char	14	Team at the End of 1986
3	nAtBat	Num	8	Times at Bat in 1986
4	nHits	Num	8	Hits in 1986
5	nHome	Num	8	Home Runs in 1986
6	nRuns	Num	8	Runs in 1986
7	nRBI	Num	8	RBIs in 1986
8	nBB	Num	8	Walks in 1986
9	YrMajor	Num	8	Years in the Major Leagues
10	CrAtBat	Num	8	Career Times at Bat
11	CrHits	Num	8	Career Hits
12	CrHome	Num	8	Career Home Runs
13	CrRuns	Num	8	Career Runs
14	CrRbi	Num	8	Career RBIs
15	CrBB	Num	8	Career Walks
16	League	Char	8	League at the End of 1986
17	Division	Char	8	Division at the End of 1986
18	Position	Char	8	Position(s) in 1986
19	nOuts	Num	8	Put Outs in 1986
20	nAssts	Num	8	Assists in 1986
21	nError	Num	8	Errors in 1986
22	Salary	Num	8	1987 Salary in $ Thousands
23	Div	Char	16	League and Division
24	logSalary	Num	8	Log Salary

The First Five Observations Out of 322

Obs	Name	Team	nAtBat	nHits	nHome	nRuns	nRBI	nBB	YrMajor	CrAtBat	CrHits	CrHome	CrRuns	CrRbi	CrBB	League	Division	Position	nOuts	nAssts	nError	Salary	Div	logSalary
1	Allanson, Andy	Cleveland	293	66	1	30	29	14	1	293	66	1	30	29	14	American	East	C	446	33	20	.	AE	.
2	Ashby, Alan	Houston	315	81	7	24	38	39	14	3449	835	69	321	414	375	National	West	C	632	43	10	475.0	NW	6.16331
3	Davis, Alan	Seattle	479	130	18	66	72	76	3	1624	457	63	224	266	263	American	West	1B	880	82	14	480.0	AW	6.17379
4	Dawson, Andre	Montreal	496	141	20	65	78	37	11	5628	1575	225	828	838	354	National	East	RF	200	11	3	500.0	NE	6.21461
5	Galarraga, Andres	Montreal	321	87	10	39	42	30	2	396	101	12	48	46	33	National	East	1B	805	40	4	91.5	NE	4.51634

Note: Multiple versions of the baseball data set, including several revisions, are available from other sources.