Talk:Billy Ripken

1989 Fleer card
I wrote the text about the different versions of the F Face card, and i am 100% certain of the white-out and marker versions. However, is my memory correct about the airbrushed version? If not, please correct.--Duke33 7 July 2005 20:42 (UTC)


 * What was the expletive written on the card? I can't remember now. Unless it's really bad I think it should be mentioned. We have plenty of curses in WP. Also, is it true the expletive was written by his teammates to embarass him? -R. fiend 17:10, 16 July 2005 (UTC)


 * I added them. We have lots of obscene words on WP, even images of kama sutra. I didn't add the picture, but rather a link to it. If anyone wants, they can add it to the page. I've given more details on how the words "fuck face" came to be as well as actually putting the words in the article.--69.156.207.170 16:31, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Uh-oh, looks like a copyright vio. The final paragraph is lifted directly from the Snopes article (the link to the article is also included but it isn't clearly cited) 172.142.204.49 13:21, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

I was under the impression that it was called RICK FACE due to children being often present at trading card shows and stores. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.110.243.108 (talk) 14:35, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

SI Image
I reverted the removal of the image, since the cover itself is specifically discussed in the "Playing Career" section. As such, the fair use claim is legitimate. -Hit bull, win steak(Moo!) 19:44, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Source for further expansion
There is a wealth of detail about the infamous 1989 Fleer card and how the picture came to be taken in a shiny new article from CNBC commemorating the 20th anniversary of the release of this card.



A motivated editor could use it to genuinely expand both that section and the main article. - Dravecky (talk) 07:44, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Fuckface?
Why does fuckface redirect here? I arrived here by querying Google for define:fuckface. That doesn't seem right. -- oKto  siTe  talk  07:12, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * From the article: "In 1989, Ripken's Fleer card showed the player holding a bat with the expletive fuck face written in plain view on the knob of the bat." --Damian Yerrick (talk|stalk) 11:17, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Armbrust The Homunculus 18:29, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Bill Ripken → Billy Ripken – In working on this article, I have noticed that practically every source I have looked at (over 95%) refers to Ripken as Billy, not Bill. The stat sites under external links all refer to him as Billy, the newspaper articles in references refer to him as Billy, and his baseball cards refer to him as Billy. Billy clearly seems to be the name most-used for him. Oriolesfan8 (talk) 20:34, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Move as requested. He is referred to as Billy by all stats sites, baseball cards (that I remember), and called by that name by everyone in radio and television. If I can recalled, so does his brother Cal. Neonblak talk  -  04:00, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Support per WP:COMMONNAME. Dralwik&#124;Have a Chat 21:04, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Support per nom and per WP:COMMONNAME. I recall him being known primarily as "Billy."  I am open to evidence to the contrary, but the nominator already seems to have done the research and his evidence seems to confirm my recollection. Rlendog (talk) 19:19, 5 June 2014 (UTC)


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Respect the man. He's Bill now.
The subject has gone by the first name of Bill for quite some time. He released a book in February 2020 with his first name Bill. https://www.diversionbooks.com/books/the-state-of-play/ He's even addressed as Bill on his MLB Network profile. http://m.mlb.com/network/personalities/?id=41537560 No one calls him Billy anymore. The decision to revert the title back to Billy is just another in a long history of bush-league moves made by those in charge of Wikipedia. No wonder it's still dogged by credibility issues. The Ink Daddy! (talk) 06:07, 26 February 2020 (UTC)