Talk:Baseball

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Explanation of text-block move

The recent series of edits by BillTunell concerning the racial integration of major league baseball in the United States are obviously good faith and the material is worthwhile, but the highly detailed content is not appropriate for this overview article on the general topic of baseball. We already have a sizable section on the history of U.S. baseball, but all of its content—which already includes coverage of integration—must remain in summary style in order to maintain a reasonable length and proper focus (please check out WP:Summary style, Bill). The massive addition also disrupts the established chronological organization and flow of the summary history section.

The additional material Bill has provided is specifically relevant to and more appropriate for our well-established topical article on the History of baseball in the United States. As detailed discussion of the major leagues' racial integration already exists there, I've moved Bill's material to that article's Talk page for the moment, so what's new and/or better written can be incorporated without creating redundancies. Best, Dan.—DCGeist (talk) 20:56, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Newbery's Pocket-Book

I've uploaded an image of the page on baseball from Newbery's Pocket-Book, in case it could be of use. See File:NewberyBaseball.jpg. Awadewit (talk) 00:34, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

el:Μπέιζμπολ

Add the greek article el:Μπέιζμπολ. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.202.45.156 (talk) 14:36, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

"Baseball" the featured article on French Wiki 6/21/09

Today (6/21/09) the featured article on French Wiki was a lovely, well-written article on baseball which was delightful to read. Although some of the information came from the same sources as this article, there were some different things. I think it might be worthwhile to translate some of it and merge it. NaySay (talk) 14:51, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

One comical and oh-so-French sentence (in the first paragraph) reads: "Les racines européennes du jeu, longtemps niées par les autorités américaines afin de faire du baseball un sport typiquement américain, sont connues de longue date par les historiens du sport." (The European roots of the game, denied for a long time by the American authorities in order to make baseball a typically American sport, have been known for some time by historians of the sport.)  !!!! Wow! Did the French ever meet a conspiracy theory they didn't like? However, some intense person must have added that; the rest of the article is well-written, informative and surprisingly enthusiastic. NaySay (talk) 14:55, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Yeh, but the joke's on them. We got baseball, and they're stuck with soccer. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots 22:42, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Sounds like you'd fit in well in France. Go ManU. NaySay (talk) 16:03, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

If the Baseball article on fr.wikipedia is a featured article, why can't we ameliorate our Baseball article, and make it a featured article? We can do better than the French! AdjustShift (talk) 14:44, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

The Baseball article is already a featured article! I didn't follow the article for some months; I missed the action. DCGeist did a nice job. AdjustShift (talk) 14:53, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Baseball teams fans' message boards or forums

I'm new to baseball - watched first game this summer, and I wonder if they exist at all? I searched and searched with Google and other engines, but found only fan pages or blogs with little or no comments at all. No message boards or forums. There's some pathetic excuse for a board on mlb official site but there too few people who write. I find this strange for a sport which attracts such a big fanbase.Chudinho 21:45, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

You're not looking in the right place. There are hundreds of baseball blogs and fora, some of them very high quality. For example, USS Mariner (Seattle Mariners), BattersBox (Toronto Blue Jays), FanGraphs (stats) and Hardball Times (general interest). Some of these are blogs with full comments, others have fora. Were you looking for a forum for a particular team? Mindmatrix 22:51, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, I was looking for Athletics, Orioles and Mets forums. Thanks for these links.Chudinho Chudinho (talk) 21:54, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Strike

I gather from the article that a "strike" specifically does not refer to a (legal) hit of the ball. Is that right? It seems such a counterintuitive use of language that I wonder if it could be emphasised/clarified more? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.152.243.242 (talk) 19:49, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Attendance records and the age of steroids

The section "Attendance records and the age of steroids" is not really about attendance. This section has several paragraphs, and only one sentence in one paragraph even mentions attendance. Some reorganization and/or section title change would be helpful. 71.112.25.123 (talk) 19:41, 9 October 2009 (UTC)ATBS

You are incorrect. The section has three paragraphs--each one refers to attendance marks.—DCGeist (talk) 21:32, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

La Soule

"A French manuscript from 1344 contains an illustration of clerics playing a game, possibly la soule, with similarities to baseball..." This seems odd; the la soule article, along with every other reference to it I've seen, describe it as being a football-type game. Or is it just that the name la soule applied to a wide variety of sports? Grant | Talk 06:27, 8 November 2009 (UTC)