I'm curious about how to find old mercury vapor ballfield/sports lighter-style floodlights. I've noticed they seem to be extremely uncommon when you search for them online, with almost all results being for metal halides.

I was also born after the peak MV era, and so I'm not sure I actually remember ever seeing any MV ballfield lights in use. This has got me wondering if MV ballfield lights were some of the first fixtures to be mass-phased out when MH and HPS became preferable. I still remember many other types of MV lights.

I'm also wondering, were these style lights a lot less common in MV, and didn't really take off until the MH era? If so, what was used to light ballfields and sports facilities during the MV era? I'm also guessing most of them were 1,000W and 1,500W like the MH ones, is this correct?