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Angels edits

Hello,
First, I must commend you for your work on the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim page. But oddly, that page is now the longest baseball team page, and they have not even been around for 1/2 as long as most teams. Would you mind condensing the bulk of the history into a couple of sections and then maybe create a new article, History of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim? You can then add the note on this page above the abbreviated article to see

Main article: History of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

Just a suggestion, I noticed the article size was longer than recommended that's all.
Let me know what you think, have a good one!--CrazyTalk 20:31, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

user vs. user talk

I'm guessing you meant to put this here instead of on CrazyTalk's user page, right? --fvw* 23:53, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Walt Disney

Hi! Thanks for keeping an eye on that page. There's continuing childish vandalism going on there at the moment, but the server is so agonishingly slow in accepting edits (at least here from Finland), that I can't keep up with it. It also appears our edits were crossed, so I overwrote yours by mistake... Please continue your vigilance, thanks! --Janke | Talk 15:50, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the refs on Ford Thunderbird

Those make the section read a lot better and less POV. Thanks! —Matthew Brown (T:C) 00:23, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Major Leagues

For consistency, when editing the National League you need a sockpuppet named "Uncle Nl". d:) Wahkeenah 02:54, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

An actual "AL" cap. That's excellent. The old Los Angeles Angels PCL cap would work for that too... if you read from bottom up. Looking at the neatly organized AL page, I see there is room for improvement in the NL page. That is, it would be nice to omit some of the wordiness (much of it my own) that attempts to explain all the pre-1900 franchise shifting. It needs a simple section called "Charter Members" like the AL page has, with some footnotes indicating what happened to them and when. Or maybe two sections: 1876 Charter Members and 1900 "Classic Eight" Members. For example, the Atlanta Braves are arguably the direct descendants of the Cincinnati Red Stockings of 1869-1870, and definitely the sole surviving charter member of the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, which is kind of an awesome fact to us historians. And there are also a few teams that are the last survivors of the American Association. Then there is Wrigley Field, Chicago, the last relic of the Federal League, but that's another story. d:) Wahkeenah 05:32, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

One question about the PCL. I gather you're in the Bay Area. But I wonder if anyone can pin down the exact dates (or range of dates) when L.A.'s Wrigley Field was razed. The Internet seems to parrot the same vague "1966" reference. There must almost certainly be something in the L.A. papers about it, around that time. Like you have nothing better to do. d:) Wahkeenah 05:32, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

• I added the sections in the lower portion of the NL page that I had mentioned. I have not actually altered the earlier text yet. Please review (unless someone else gets to it first). Wahkeenah 06:38, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Oakland Athletics: All-Time Team

Don't get me wrong because I'm a big A's fan, but I don't see how this article is wikipedia material. The article is the all time A's team according to thebaseballpage.com, what about other people's all time A's? Also this article, while verifiable, does not seem to offer fact but somebody's subjective analysis, or opinion. I'm nominating this article for AfD and I guess you can make your case there. Please don't take this the wrong way. Dspserpico 07:57, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

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