Posted By:
Kevin CummingsThe site Baseball-Reference.com allows you to run queries against some of its data. One of the queries is a Place of Birth Report.
For all 16,001 players who debuted prior to the 2003 season the United States is the most frquently cited place of birth (14,204 players, 88.8%). The remainder of the top ten is rounded out by:
Dominican Republic (357, 2.2%)
Unknown (311, 1.9%)
Puerto Rico (209, 1.3%)
Canada (200, 1.2%)
Venezuela (158, 1.0%)
Cuba (147, .9%)
Mexico (95, .6%)
Panama (44, .3%)
Ireland (40, .2%)
Forty-four other locations are represented, but my favorite is the one poor soul who listed "A Ship on Atlantic Ocean."
Anyone have any idea who that might be?