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English: Historical major league baseball runs scored per game (by a single team); highlighted area is the "dead-ball" era, 1900-1918 inclusive.
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Author Grabsomepine

The data is league-wide; 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 Baseball-Reference.com [1] [2]

The file was created in Gnuplot with the following code:

set terminal svg enhanced size 640 480 fname "Helvetica" fsize 12
set output "MLB_runspergame_history.svg"
set style line 1 linetype 1 pointtype 6 linewidth 2 linecolor 6 pointsize 2
set style line 2 linetype 1 pointtype 6 linewidth 2 linecolor 7 pointsize 2
set xrange [1890:2008]
set ytics 0,1,8
set yrange [3:8]
set format y "%1.0f"
set xlabel "Year"
set ylabel "Runs per game"
unset key
set boxwidth 1.0 relative
set style fill solid 1.0
plot \
"[datafile1] w filledcurves x1 linestyle 1,\
"[datafile2]" w filledcurves x1 linestyle 2

from the following data file:

Year	R/G
1877	5.667
1876	5.896
1877	5.667
1878	5.174
1879	5.31
1880	4.693
1881	5.098
1882	5.41
1883	5.778
1884	5.501
1885	4.952
1886	5.237
1887	6.083
1888	4.538
1889	5.841
1890	5.575
1891	5.538
1892	5.097
1893	6.57
1894	7.363
1895	6.584
1896	6.032
1897	5.884
1898	4.956
1899	5.237
1900	5.213
1901	4.986
1902	4.432
1903	4.44
1904	3.726
1905	3.897
1906	3.617
1907	3.527
1908	3.385
1909	3.548
1910	3.835
1911	4.513
1912	4.527
1913	4.037
1914	3.745
1915	3.793
1916	3.564
1917	3.588
1918	3.634
1919	3.872
1920	4.361
1921	4.856
1922	4.87
1923	4.815
1924	4.761
1925	5.129
1926	4.637
1927	4.751
1928	4.73
1929	5.186
1930	5.549
1931	4.811
1932	4.913
1933	4.481
1934	4.906
1935	4.897
1936	5.188
1937	4.871
1938	4.893
1939	4.824
1940	4.68
1941	4.489
1942	4.083
1943	3.915
1944	4.168
1945	4.181
1946	4.007
1947	4.355
1948	4.579
1949	4.607
1950	4.852
1951	4.547
1952	4.176
1953	4.607
1954	4.376
1955	4.485
1956	4.452
1957	4.306
1958	4.283
1959	4.383
1960	4.314
1961	4.525
1962	4.461
1963	3.947
1964	4.036
1965	3.988
1966	3.994
1967	3.769
1968	3.418
1969	4.072
1970	4.342
1971	3.889
1972	3.686
1973	4.214
1974	4.125
1975	4.213
1976	3.995
1977	4.471
1978	4.103
1979	4.458
1980	4.288
1981	3.998
1982	4.298
1983	4.308
1984	4.257
1985	4.331
1986	4.409
1987	4.723
1988	4.138
1989	4.132
1990	4.256
1991	4.308
1992	4.117
1993	4.598
1994	4.923
1995	4.847
1996	5.036
1997	4.767
1998	4.79
1999	5.085
2000	5.14
2001	4.775
2002	4.618
2003	4.728
2004	4.814
2005	4.592
2006	4.858
2007	4.797
2008	4.493

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