Graph of the Day: Average Age per Year for Batters and Pitchers

by Jeff Zimmerman on Jul 8, 2009 6:00 AM EDT

For some other work I plan on completing shortly, I needed the average of players for a given season. Though I only need the data for a few seasons, I went ahead and ran the data back until 1900. The data shows nice drops in age for WWI (1914 to 1918) and WW II and subsequent jumps in age after...