Talk:Wally Pipp

The Michigan Pickler
A game report from the NY Times July 17, 1924 refers to Pipp as "the Michigan pickler" what is that?! -allstick

Power
He hit 282 with 'little power'....he led the league in HRs one year. That is more than a 'little power' — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.79.163.175 (talk) 01:44, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

other versions of the headache story
http://www.snopes.com/sports/baseball/pipp.asp Halconen (talk) 03:32, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Article Quality, Ancestry
This article described Pipp's parents as "an Irish Catholic couple of German descent." I fixed it--pointing out that different sources classify him as Irish or German. Seems to me that an article with that sort of conflicting info may not be ready for GA designation. Tapered (talk) 03:26, 22 April 2014 (UTC)


 * The 1987 article in Sports Illustrated by Bruce M. Anderson indicating Irish Catholic descent is incorrect and any present day cursory search of online US census records, family tree websites, and newspaper archives leads to the correct conclusion of Wally Pipp's 100% German ancestry. Pipp's mother, Pauline (1862-1930) was an immigrant from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and came to the US at age 8 per her death notice in the The Grand Rapids Press. Pipp's father, William (1859-1934) was the son of two immigrants born in Germany in the 1830's who came to the US and later married in Livingston County, Michigan in 1856. 73.72.224.164 (talk) 08:49, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

1916?
That photo is not of Pipp from 1916. The Yankees still wore the 'NY' insignia on the left breast of the blouse in 1916. This is a photo at the earliest, from 1917. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.83.154.30 (talk) 15:36, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

Michael William Menosky from Glen Cmapbell PA replaced the Babe, I suggest you do more research!
This old post is fake news! 2601:543:C880:2820:4997:C794:DFAA:30A8 (talk) 02:02, 19 December 2021 (UTC)