Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of obscure baseball records


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result was delete. — Kurykh  22:31, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

List of obscure baseball records

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The topic itself provides no realistic criteria for inclusion. What defines obscure? And who recognizes these records? If they are recognized by Major League Baseball are they really obscure? This borders more on trivial facts of curiosity. Tecmobowl 00:32, 19 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Weak Delete but save some of it somewhere. The title is misleading and it's become a collection of junk, but some of this material is probably worth saving in some context. Matchups 01:58, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 13:14, 19 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Not Nearly As Weak A Delete As All Of That: per nom, fails WP:NOT as a completely indiscriminate heap of information, fails WP:OR as a collection. Toss in that these "records" are almost completely from the 2006 season and don't remotely reflect the full sweep of baseball history.  These aren't even statistical accomplishments of the sort normally deemed to be "records," but pure trivia that's infinitely expandable.  No doubt some bored, lonely wonk will discover that the Milwaukee Brewers starting infield on July 9, 2007, will for the first time since the 1944 season consist entirely of 6'3" right-handed throwers, but I can't for the life of me see how Wikipedia would be bettered by the information.    RGTraynor  13:29, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge, perhaps, into list of rare baseball events or whatever that link was? ~Crowstar~ 14:20, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete: These aren't records. They are "fun facts" and don't deserve an d article. DCEdwards1966 14:39, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete-But, some facts on this page may warrant inclusion on their respective players' pages. I suspect that the notable, worthwhile ones are already there.--Rossheth | Talk to me 14:48, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as miscellaneous information. None of these are really records. Theyt are just random collections of statistics which no one, a priori, would have considered to be worth recording and preserving. An example is the claim that two opposing pitchers together had the most letters in their last names of any game. In fact it is doubtful that many of the claims are even true, since these truly random collections of facts would not have been accurately tracked in searchable records. These sound like the inane things on-the-air color men and statisticians dream up to avoid dead air. Edison 15:12, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as random and subject to interpretation as to what constitutes obscure. Eusebeus 15:28, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. There's a reason these are "obscure" facts - they don't even qualify as "records" in the common sense of the word.  As stated above, this is just a collection of rather random trivia.  Ark yan  &#149; (talk) 15:43, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Comments Yes, most of these are from 2006. That's a weakness of the current version of the article, not a reason to delete.  Also, a very large amount of archival baseball material has been computerized, so I suspect that the claims really are true.  (I've already voted Delete on this steamroller, but nonetheless feel compelled to try to keep things straight.) Matchups 19:25, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Suspicion absent documentary evidence isn't worth much in Wikipedia terms, is the rub.   RGTraynor  20:30, 19 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete WP:ILIKEIT, but rules are rules. Yechiel Man 22:59, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Indiscriminate collection of information, not even records, "obscure" is subjective.  But perhaps some of these stats could be relocated to different articles?  Useight 01:31, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: They'd certainly be interesting trivia for the player articles in question.   RGTraynor  12:59, 20 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete obscure implies not notable, but anyone can invent "records": let's just change one of them: On October 6th, 2006, Randy Johnson of the New York Yankees faced Kenny Rogers of the Detroit Tigers in game 3 of the American League Divisional Series. It marked the first time ever that both starting pitchers in a post season game had previously thrown a perfect game in their career. It marked the first time that a pitcher of a perfect game started against a pitcher with the same name a famous country singer who had a hit duo with Dolly Parton.... The mind boggles...Carlossuarez46 21:57, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.