Talk:John Stevens (baseball umpire)

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The article was moved from Johnny Stevens to John Stevens with the comment "No one ever addressed him as Johnny" in the edit summary, implying that this doesn't require discussion. The edit summary has a URL to a New York Times article that refers to him as John but doesn't seem to support the assertion that he was never addressed as Johnny.

For the sake of discussion, here are some sources referring to him as Johnny, some of them authored by umpires who worked with him:
 * Baseball Reference
 * Retrosheet
 * This MLB.com page about people who umpired no-hitters; the info also appears in the MLB Umpire Media Guide
 * This mention in Dale Scott's book
 * This mention in one of Ron Luciano's books, The Umpire Strikes Back
 * This mention in Doug Harvey's book
 * Reflections by other umpires in Larry Gerlach's The Men in Blue
 * Quite a few more baseball books on a Google Books search, including biographies or autobiographies of the MacPhail family, Yogi Berra, and Denny McLain.

The UPI blurb about his death refers to him as John W. "Johnny" Stevens.

We may ultimately decide that the name John is reflected in more reliable sources, but I think it deserves some discussion. It is simply not true that he was never addressed as Johnny. Larry Hockett (Talk) 03:03, 8 October 2023 (UTC)