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Old 06-09-2008, 12:10 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Would you please post some examples? Just a few. Thanks.
First, an explanation:

While working on the minor league schedules, I originally just created team abbreviations on the fly as I needed them. After awhile I realized that wasn't the optimal way to go. So, I sat down and created a uniform, systematized abbreviation approach which gave a unique three-letter abbreviation for every city/town which has ever hosted a minor league team. There are no duplications and the abbreviations do not use any of the abbreviations used by Retrosheet/Lahman database.

This list still needs to be cleaned up some and some additional locations and leagues added, but at present it contains 1,621 unique abbreviations.

Ten random examples:

Albany, GA = ABY
Albany, NY = ALB
Brooklyn, NY = BKN
Great Falls, MT = GRF
Hartford, CT = HFD
Las Vegas, NV = LVG
Morristown, TN = MRT
Paris, TX = PAR
Paris, KY = PAK
San Francisco, CA = SFR

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Then sadly I am humourless...

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