Talk:Gene Bearden/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 01:42, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Lead
 * Consider linking minor leagues to Minor League Baseball
 * "He lived in Helena, Arkansas after retiring" - Need a geographic comma after Arkansas
 * Link rookie
 * Last MLB appearance needs cited
 * Final MLB statistics need cited

Early life and military service
 * Link Missouri Pacific Railroad.
 * "Bearden returned to baseball that same year as a part of the New York Yankees organization" - Most recent discussed year is 1949, not 1945, so probably best to give 1945 there.

Cleveland Indians
 * "After the game, he was demoted to the Triple-A Baltimore Orioles of the International League, he quit the team after two defeats, not wanting to pitch in International League ballparks as he found them too small" - This reads very clunky with the comma after League. A semicolon or a full stop would be better.
 * "On October 8, in game 1948 World Series" - Missing the game number, and if a specific number (Game 1, etc.) game should be capitalized.
 * "he also had two hits at bat, including a double" - This doesn't make sense
 * "of the National League's Boston Braves" - Move National League's up to where the Boston Braves are first mentioned, and then you can just say the Braves.
 * Complete game is overlinked

Later life and career
 * "after a 6.15 ERA in 14 appearances, the Indians placed him on waivers" - When? Surely the transaction dates are known
 * "In 34 games played" - I've always seen games pitched, rather than games played, for pitcher appearances.

References
 * The Neyer/James Guide version that's linked to, the relevant page number for the information it's citing (ref 5) is page 129 not 142
 * For the Baseball-Reference citations, you have Sports Reference LLC and Sports Reference, LLC (the comma), this should be consistent.

That's it for the first pass, placing on hold. Hog Farm Bacon 02:02, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Issues fixed, thanks for the review. Only thing I couldn't find was the day he was placed on waivers. I did add an exact date for when he was picked up by Washington, and I imagine the release would've been a couple of days before that (he last pitched July 27 so that's a small window). Wizardman  00:32, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
 * - I'm not seeing where his final career stats are cited. They're in the infobox and the lead, but aren't cited anywhere. Hog Farm Bacon 00:37, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thought I did that; added now. Wizardman  00:50, 30 July 2020 (UTC)