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Baseball is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on November 12, 2004.

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Date	Process	Result
January 19, 2004	Refreshing brilliant prose	Not kept
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October 25, 2004	Featured article candidate	Promoted
February 19, 2007	Featured article review	Demoted
May 12, 2009	Featured article candidate	Promoted
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A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the On this day section on June 19, 2010.

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I was looking for information to compare cricket and baseball for my students and read some parts of this article. The section "Distinctive elements" comes across to me more as "Why we (the authors) think baseball is better than other sports". Anyway, I just wanted to leave the feedback. I got the info I needed, so thanks! --Boy.pockets (talk) 05:09, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There is no mention of International Rules baseball, still played in South Wales and on Merseyside. The governing body for the game in England is the English Baseball Association, http://www.englishbaseballassociation.co.uk. ZoeinDerby — Preceding unsigned comment added by ZoeinDerby (talk • contribs) 11:12, 11 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This article is locked, so please have somebody with proper authorization make the following correction. Re the comment, "No major league team had been located west of St. Louis until 1958, when the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants relocated to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively"; obviously, Kansas City (1955) is west of St. Louis.

MLB Historian revises baseball history?

Seems to me that the beginning of this page need a rewrite according to this recent article. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/sports/baseball/13thorn.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=John%20Thorn&st=cse Ckruschke (talk) 15:29, 14 March 2011 (UTC)Ckruschke[reply]

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 There is no mention of International Rules baseball, still played in South Wales and on Merseyside. The governing body for the game in England is the English Baseball Association, http://www.englishbaseballassociation.co.uk.   ZoeinDerby  <small><span class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:ZoeinDerby|ZoeinDerby]] ([[User talk:ZoeinDerby|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/ZoeinDerby|contribs]]) 11:12, 11 February 2011 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
+This article is locked, so please have somebody with proper authorization make the following correction.  Re the comment, "No major league team had been located west of St. Louis until 1958, when the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants relocated to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively"; obviously, Kansas City (1955) is west of St. Louis.
 == MLB Historian revises baseball history? ==