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Passed balls

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Pocoroba was the designated catcher for Phil Neikro, who had a knuckleball that at times was equally unhittable and uncatchable. Some mention should be made of that, since the article points out that he led the league in PBs multiple times. Taterbill (talk) 18:23, 29 May 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Taterbill (talkcontribs) 18:00, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Taterbill: I haven't come across any reliable sources that say that Pocoroba was Niekro's personal catcher. Also, a passed ball is recorded when the official scorer concludes it's the catcher's fault (not pitcher's, which would be scored as a wild pitch). So it's safe to say that, regardless of how difficult it was to catch that knuckleball, the official scorers thought adjudged that Pocoroba should have been able to catch it with ordinary effort. —Bloom6132 (talk) 02:49, 30 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk19:09, 7 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  • Reviewed: Albertine Lapensée
  • Comment: Eligible per Rule 1e, because it only appeared in the "Recent Deaths" section of ITN and not as a bold link.

5x expanded by Bloom6132 (talk). Self-nominated at 04:06, 29 May 2020 (UTC).[reply]

  • If you really want I believe you can search the copyright catalogs online... but if not that's fine. The file is of some concern. I prefer alt 2 which is well-sourced and in the article. Alt 1 is also sourced and in the article, but could use a more primary source but it's perfectly fine for DYK. Article is OK by 1D rules. Expansion occurred from May 26–June 1, which is OK for timespan. Article went from 832 characters to ~5K characters now. QPQ checks out. Article is neutral, both facts are OK. Cites sources. Refs 1 and 10 copyright checked without copy-pastes. Everything is good to go except the image. Therapyisgood (talk) 21:01, 1 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request

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According to Pocoroba's player pages on MLB.com, Baseball-Reference, and the baseball stat research website SABR.org, his actual first name is Biff and Benedict is his middle name. I wasn't able to find a source or an edit summary from User:UnhappyCanuck, who made these changes yesterday, showing how these reliable sources got it wrong. The infobox, the first words in the article, and the first words in the "Early life" section all should refer to him as Biff Pocoroba or Biff Benedict Pocoroba without nickname-denoting quotation marks. 108.73.104.136 (talk) 22:36, 31 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed – I've changed it back to his proper first name. —Bloom6132 (talk) 22:58, 31 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]