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A fact from Chris Gittens appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 July 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Chris Gittens's father refused to attend any of his professional baseball games until he was promoted to the major leagues?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Chris Gittens.

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The result was: promoted by Desertarun (talk) 14:50, 3 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Gittens in 2020

... that Chris Gittens (pictured) won the Eastern League Most Valuable Player Award in 2019? Source: [1]
- ALT1: ... that the father of Chris Gittens (pictured) refused to attend any of his professional baseball games until he was promoted to the major leagues? Source: Yankees’ Chris Gittens’ dad keeps promise of attending no games until MLB debut ... Saturday!

Reviewed: 7th QPQ out of 7 from Template:Did you know nominations/1935 New York anti-lynching exhibitions
Comment: This version is the pre-expansion state (432 B of prose), as you can see from this diff when it was split off.

Converted from a redirect by Muboshgu (talk) and Stonecold415 (talk). Nominated by Muboshgu (talk) at 19:11, 7 June 2021 (UTC).[reply]

New enough and long enough. QPQ present. ALT1 is checked out by the last reference (18) and is quite interesting; I much prefer it to ALT0, though that is also cited. Everything else looks good. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 23:48, 23 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]