User:Johnduffy23/Evaluate an Article

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article out of all the C-class articles, specifically because baseball is a game of our past time and present, and comes with a lot of heritage. Part of that heritage includes the many great players who eventually made their way into the Cooperstown baseball hall of fame. Although much of the criterea to enter Cooperstown is based on statistics during a career, it is also infleunced by critics and the opinions people may have on a certain player. With Joe Morgan being one of my favorite players of all time, I thought it would be appropriate for me to look further into the page about his career and evaluate it.

Evaluate the article
Conent: Consisted of statistics and stories throughout Morgan's life, and discussed key moments from an early stage, to his professional baseball career and what he did after he retired from the MLB. Everything on the page was up to date, relevant to the topic, and there was nothing that distracted me from getting the information I was looking for.

Tone: Neutral and informative. There were no claims made that were biased in any way, or any viewpoints that were overrepresented on underrepresented. From the tone, I could easily tell the goal of the page was to inform the reader of the events that made up Morgan's life, and the success he's had while playing in the MLB using credible and unbiased information.

Sources: Morgan's page pulled a majority of personal infomation from his book, A Life in Baseball. For his professional career, stats were pulled from the MLB archives, and various news articles from when he was at the top of his game in the 1970's. There were also several sources from ESPN that showcased his success as a broadcaster after he retired from professional baseball.

Talk Page: Looking through the page, there were many opinon-based points brought up using the career statistics of Morgan, supporting the claims that were made. Specifically looking at the attack blog, I found that there was criticism on both ends regarding how he played the game. But overall, the talk page was not what I thought it was going to be about, and revolved more around the integrity of the page itself rather than focus on the career of Joe Morgan. Rather than focusing on his career, a majority of the page discussed criticisms brought to life by other forms of media. For example, there was a huge section about Morgan's comments about the movie Moneyball, which consited of biased opinions and speculation without using any credible evidence. There were not many reliable sources about Morgan that were used on the talk page, and consisted primarily of spammy links.