Talk:Baseball

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Change caption = Los Angeles Angels center fielder Mike Trout hits a home run on a pitch from New York Mets pitcher Tommy Milone on May 21, 2017.

to caption = Los Angeles Angels center fielder Mike Trout hits a home run off a pitch from New York Mets pitcher Tommy Milone on May 21, 2017. Museofeos (talk) 15:53, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

 Done Day Creature (talk) 17:03, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Baseball was recorded in Canada a year before it was in the USA. Why is this left out? Somebody please make correct. ~2026-19785-3 (talk) 03:10, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

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Change origin of modern game from USA to Canada.

https://www.cbc.ca/sportslongform/entry/how-canada-invented-american-football-baseball-basketball-and-hockey ~2026-19785-3 (talk) 03:13, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want made. Please detail the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. The article already discusses the Beachville, Ontario game mentioned by the CBC source you linked, describing it as the first recorded baseball game in North America. Day Creature (talk) 04:42, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

his book Flesh has America being like ancient greece. the city-states battle through a rougher futuristic version of baseball. the teams are not just named after animals for fun... the team's "mascot" is likely the primary provider of furs and skins for the team and its fans to wear and eat. the bucks, bulls, and beavers fight it out in a semi-equal battlefield likely not too different from a ball park. MikeLavalet (talk) 05:36, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

OK, but this page is for discussing how to improve the baseball article. Unless you're suggesting that we should mention Farmer's story in this article, this comment is off-topic. If you are suggesting that — I'm very skeptical that we should. The relevant calculation is not how important baseball is to the story, but how important the story is to baseball. --Trovatore (talk) 22:09, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

Vintage baseball article short enough to merge in main Baseball article. Robloxguest3 (talk) 19:37, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

That's not really a good enough reason for me to support at this time, if you could expand on the rationale that would help. Rgrds. --BX (talk) 20:52, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Well, first of all, should it even be a seperate article? Merge to history section, because they are the same thing, except modern baseball has more rulesRobloxguest3 (talk) 20:54, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Specficially, it is redundant, and the topic overlap so much. Robloxguest3 (talk) 21:01, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

So that would be a valid reason Robloxguest3 (talk) 21:02, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

No, it seems appropriate as a stand-alone article. I see no reason to merge it at this time, so Oppose merge. Rgrds. --BX (talk) 22:04, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

How does it seem appropriate? Robloxguest3 (talk) 14:55, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Merge selectively - The current article might not meet GNG and has been unsourced for a long time it seems. Seems to have quite a bit of OR. I would merge the Women playing baseball section to the history of baseball seeing as that's the best sourced section and cut most of the rest. ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 13:14, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Oppose - Vintage base ball as it exists today (after all, in baseball history, it wasn't "vintage") is a unique subject and sufficiently distinguished to warrant having its own article. Jeff in CA (talk) 23:16, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Well now it is considered vintage. Even so, if you merged the article into the history section, you could still say:

"A variation of baseball played today is based on old baseball rules, called Vintage base ball."

Maybe you can add a sub-section to incorporate the article into history.

Merge somewhere in beginning of the history section.

Robloxguest3 (talk) 15:05, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

I agree with Jeff in CA, however as mentioned above it is poorly sourced etc. IMO, the issue should be meeting GNG. Time permitting, I can work on the article a bit. Rgrds. --BX (talk) 15:28, 12 March 2026 (UTC)