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Ottumwa Packers

 * ... that despite existing on-and-off over a span of more than two decades, the Ottumwa Packers minor league baseball team produced only one future Hall of Famer, pitcher Burleigh Grimes?

Created/expanded by Alexsautographs (talk). Self nominated at 23:40, 14 April 2013 (UTC).




 * Symbol question.svg New article that is 1,772 characters long. No need for QPQ, since this source confirms this is the editor's 5th DYK nom (under this discussion, it is the 5th nom that is the last free pass).  Hook is 182 characters (<200 character limit).  However, I am concerned with the sources.  There're only 2 in the entire article, and none of them directly source the hook (i.e. none of them mention Grimes being the only HOF'er produced by the team).  The "League championships" section has no sources (a no-no for DYK).  Lastly, the first source simply outlines the team's history from year to year, so it necessitates a ton of interpretation of the info given that constitutes borderline original research.  I'd suggest looking for sources at Google News Archive and Google Books. —Bloom6132 (talk) 23:00, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol delete vote.svg Please work with the criticism listed, otherwise we will regretfully have to take down this nomination. —♦♦ AMBER  (ЯʘCK)  20:03, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, there is no source available as far as I know that explicitly states Grimes was the only Hall of Famer produced by the team. That information was gleaned by going through the year-by-year rosters of the team on Baseball-Reference.com. I have added a link for the Championships fact. And don't interpret this as rudeness, but I do not see how using the first source "necessitates a ton of interpretation." What that section of the article does is put into words what the first source says in chart form. Alex (talk) 20:17, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
 * That's too bad, because we do require the hook to be directly sourced. If you say that's impossible, I'm afraid that spells trouble for this DYK nomination. —♦♦ AMBER  (ЯʘCK)  20:30, 29 April 2013 (UTC)