[ctorg]

Something I noticed about the cities.txt database is that it treats New York City as a single city. While that is the case these days, as anyone from the city knows, when you are from a borough other than Manhattan, that's where you generally say you are from. If you were born in Brooklyn, that is part of New York City. Brooklyn, NY, (and Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx) does not appear in the database.

Because of that, players who have those places listed as their hometown don't turn up right. For instance, John Franco, who was born in Brooklyn, NY, turns up as being from Brooklyn, Ohio. In reality, only players born in Manhattan should have their hometown as New York, NY.

So, I would suggest that everyone replace the New York line with a line for each of the boroughs. You can use the same coordinates, since they're all right next to each other, but here are the populations:

Bronx 1363198
New York 1537195
Queens 2229379
Brooklyn 2465326
Staten Island 463314

I haven't checked yet, but Queens is often broken down further into individual area names, such as Astoria, Long Island City, Kew Gardens, etc., and the Lahman database may do the same, which would result in players from those neighborhoods getting "missing" entries.