Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Players/Template1


 * Keep in mind this is just a guide to help people get started when writing biographical articles about Baseball players

Introduction: Name, Nickname (born, died); number of seasons, position(s), main team or number of teams, other notable achievements or details.

Pre-professional career
Paragraphs about Early life, Teams, schools, leagues, achievements, honors, notes.

Professional Career
Paragraphs about the following topics:


 * 1) Draft history/Signing info
 * 2) Minor Leagues or Non-major professional leagues (i.e. Negro Leagues, Non-MLB associated leagues)
 * 3) *Teams, years, notes
 * 4) Major Leagues (if applicable)
 * 5) Team 1: Debut, achievements, honors, post-season, notes
 * 6) Team 2: Traded/Signed (when?, notes), achievements, honors, post-season, notes
 * 7) Team 3: Traded/Signed (when?, notes), achievements, honors, post-season, notes

Post playing career
Title this section or sections appropriately, like "Retirement" or "Managerial years"

Honors (Hall of Fame, Nr. Retired, ..); Notable activities past retirement

Records and achievements
In this section add lists of the following things (which may also be written about in detail above):
 * 1) List of Records. Introduce with Records:
 * 2) *Record - rank when retired, current rank
 * 3) **e.g. 570 homeruns - finished career 3rd all time, currently in 8th place
 * 4) List of other achievements. Introduce with Other achievements:
 * 5) *Description, date
 * 6) **e.g. Struck out 19 batters in 8 Innings on May 29, 1997
 * 7) **e.g. Hit for cycle on July 20, 1956
 * 8) **e.g. Hit two grand slams on August 1, 1970
 * 9) List of awards. Introduce with Awards
 * 10) *Name - year
 * 11) **e.g. Rookie of the year - 1995
 * 12) **e.g. Cy Young - 1998
 * 13) **e.g. Gold Glove Award - 2000
 * 14) List of All-Star appearances. Introduced with All-Star appearances:
 * 15) *Year, quick notes, (major notes should be above in career section.)
 * 16) Post-Season appearances. Introduced with Post-Season appearances
 * 17) *Year - level, honor,

Statistics
or Stats by team

or Career Stats

for pitchers: