User talk:Sysilverstein

May 2009
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Re: Cheeseburgers
Perhaps Sternberger did invent - is not a neutral sentence, it implies an opinion on the matter. Secondly, your citing of a scanned document from a library does not work, as it is original research. I suggest you also read up on our other core policy, neutral point of view. Lastly, you are not allowed to write with undue weight given a particular subject of the article, again, as also per WP:NPOV.—  Dæ dαlus Contribs  23:22, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Myer
He can have been both. That statement is nonsensical. It's like saying "I'm not American, I'm six feet tall." Also, pls point me to a page. I don't see it.--Epeefleche (talk) 08:16, 14 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Please note that I did "point" you to a page: the passage is footnoted with a precise citation. The quotation extract was accurate and contextual; here is the full (if convoluted) quotation from Bill James: "Actually, Myer may not have been Jewish. He told a home-town newspaperman shortly before his death in 1974 that he was not Jewish, he was German, but that the writers thought that he was Jewish, and he just didn't think that being German was anything to be proud of at the time, so he never set the record straight." (New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract - 2001 - p 499) Sysilverstein (talk) 15:03, 14 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks. That is helpful, in that it clarifies that what I view as the nonsensical part is part of the attribution.  I also now see that in the preceding para at 498-99  he quotes Ribalow's referense to Myer as Jewish.  And Megdal in the recently published Baseball Talmud includes him, and separately when asked to comments on that said "Basically, to excise Myer from the book, I have this anecdote, against a whole life lived as a self-identifying Jew. I went with the preponderance of the evidence."  See .  Or, as another commentator said, "who would anybody [in anti-semitic baseball] pretend to be Jewish?"  Finally, a quick google search of "mayer german jewish" will yield a number of German Jews named Myer ... see ; his comment as reported in confusing.--Epeefleche (talk) 00:21, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Nonetheless, I edited the entry to remove any ambiguity. Best regards. Sysilverstein (talk) 00:56, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

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