Talk:Baseball

Potential images for future placement

• Good shot of the whole field at Yankee Stadium
• Picturesque field in New Mexico, looks minor league
• A baseball
• another baseball
• a baseball bat
• baseball glove w/ball
• Batter hitting the ball
• Pitcher/Batter shot
• Another pitching shot

The Library of Congress has a ton of photos of early 1900's baseball, with no known restrictions here. --Todd Coles 19:57, 2 February 2008 (CST)

We do not sign our names in article space.

Robert, please don't revert my edit. We do not sign our names in main article space - that is saved for signing comments on talk pages. I'll be reverting it back. Thanks. --Todd Coles 22:22, 12 February 2008 (CST)

I'm sorry Todd if I stepped on your toes. I do however think the baseball page needs serious revision and I would love to work with you on this. The reason for my edit earlier was I thought you were claiming the page as your own (since you made no additional contribution adding or retracting from my comments, which if its a misunderstanding or attributed to my newbie staus, I apologize). So can we coordinate our efforts here? I would like to make the baseball page "official". I've done quite a bit of reading, research, and writing that I think I can make a significant contribution.

Robert

Robert, you are making great contributions to this article, which is great. But I think you also need to better familiarize yourself with how a wiki works. I've reviewed the edit history and I don't see anything Todd has done that could even be remotely construed as "claiming the page" for his own. You did, by signing your name at the top, which is never done. And by the way, please sign your posts here, on the Talk page, by hitting the tilde key four times. Shawn Goldwater 00:03, 13 February 2008 (CST)

Robert, please do continue to work on this article. The contributions you made are great. Plus, if I tried to claim the page as my own I think people would run me out of town. :) I am guessing what probably happened, is you accidentally hit the signature button, and didn't realize it signed your name at the top of the article - that's the only thing I was trying to clean up. I apologize if I came off harsh, you aren't stepping on anyones toes. And, like Shawn said, if you hit ~~~~ at the end of your posts on a talk page, it will sign our name and timestamp it. There is also a button you can hit above the edit window that will do the same. Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions, and welcome to CZ. --Todd Coles 07:21, 13 February 2008 (CST)

hi Todd- thanks for your encouragement and understanding about my mistakes. I assure you that I intend to contribute more to the article but would like to know where my contribution would be best served. In other words, what do we need to do to get this "official"? Obviously this is a broad catagory but some things are more important than others. Any thoughts? Robert C. Starkins 02:27, 19 February 2008 (CST)

In my opinion, the two most critical sections of this should deal with 1) the history of the game, giving attention not only to the American game, but on the world stage as well and 2) the rules and gameplay. I, of course, can't give any definitive answer on what it will take to get it approved, since I'm not an editor.

I have been thinking about what to do with the terminology section. I think it will be helpful to someone who is completely unfamiliar with baseball in their understanding of the article, but I'm not sure it fits in right where it is. Maybe move it to a catalog subpage, I'm thinking. --Todd Coles 11:48, 19 February 2008 (CST)

Stats, the use of

Stat guru Bill James once wrote (disgustedly) that people frequently asked him what was the most "interesting" statistic he had ever encountered. That, he said, is like asking a carpenter what his most interesting tool was. Stats are merely tools to be used to study and analyze various aspects of performance and to develop new insights thereby. (Bill and I are both members of SABR, the Society for American Baseball Research.) Hayford Peirce 20:36, 30 June 2009 (UTC)