Talk:Wally Pipp

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Date	Process	Result
April 23, 2014	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on April 25, 2014.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that in 1925, Wally Pipp (pictured) "took the two most expensive aspirin in history"?

Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on February 17, 2017, and February 17, 2020.

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The Michigan Pickler

A game report from the NY Times July 17, 1924 refers to Pipp as "the Michigan pickler" what is that?! -allstick

Power

He hit 282 with 'little power'....he led the league in HRs one year. That is more than a 'little power' — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.79.163.175 (talk) 01:44, 21 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

other versions of the headache story

http://www.snopes.com/sports/baseball/pipp.asp Halconen (talk) 03:32, 22 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Article Quality, Ancestry

This article described Pipp's parents as "an Irish Catholic couple of German descent." I fixed it--pointing out that different sources classify him as Irish or German. Seems to me that an article with that sort of conflicting info may not be ready for GA designation. Tapered (talk) 03:26, 22 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The 1987 article in Sports Illustrated by Bruce M. Anderson indicating Irish Catholic descent is incorrect and any present day cursory search of online US census records, family tree websites, and newspaper archives leads to the correct conclusion of Wally Pipp's 100% German ancestry. Pipp's mother, Pauline (1862-1930) was an immigrant from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and came to the US at age 8 per her death notice in the The Grand Rapids Press. Pipp's father, William (1859-1934) was the son of two immigrants born in Germany in the 1830's who came to the US and later married in Livingston County, Michigan in 1856. 73.72.224.164 (talk) 08:49, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Wally Pipp/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Secret (talk · contribs) 15:49, 20 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I will review this Secret ^account 15:49, 20 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The article is fine, no close paraphrasing concerns, all the sources are reliable, prose is fine. Nothing that I see that prevents it from GA. Secret ^account 17:30, 23 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! – Muboshgu (talk) 18:52, 23 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

1916?

That photo is not of Pipp from 1916. The Yankees still wore the 'NY' insignia on the left breast of the blouse in 1916. This is a photo at the earliest, from 1917. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.83.154.30 (talk) 15:36, 26 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Michael William Menosky from Glen Cmapbell PA replaced the Babe, I suggest you do more research!

This old post is fake news! 2601:543:C880:2820:4997:C794:DFAA:30A8 (talk) 02:02, 19 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]