hofbatting: Hall of Fame Batters
In homerhanumat/tigerstats: R Functions for Elementary Statistics

Data on the 147 batters inducted into the Major LeagueBaseball Hall of Fame as of the year 2013.

A data frame with 147 observations on the following 29 variables.

Name: Player name
Rk: Unknown
Inducted: Year inducted into Hall of Fame
Yrs: Number of years planed in the Majors
From: First year in the Majors
To: Last year in the Majors
MidCareer: Middle year of player's career
Era: Era of Baseball history in which the player was (for the most part) active. Values are: 19th century (before 1900), Dead Ball (1900-1919), Lively Ball (1920-1940), Integration, (1941-1959), Expansion (1960-1975), Free Agency (1976-1992), Long Ball (1993 +).
ASG: Number of All-Star games played
WAR.pos: Wins above replacement (WAR), as defined for a position player
G: Games played
PA: Number of plate appearances
AB: Number of times at bat
R: Runs scored
H: Base hits
X2B: Doubles
X3B: Triples
Triple.Rate: Number of triples divided by number of times at bat
HR: Home runs
HR.Rate: Number of home runs divided by number of times at bat
RBI: Runs batted in
SB: Number of successful stolen base attempts
CS: Number of times thrown out while attempting to steal a base
BB: Base on Balls (number of times "walked")
SO: Number of times struck out
BA: Batting average
OBP: On base percentage
SLG: Slugging average
OPS: OBP plus SLG