Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball Players/Template1

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Name
Image:Picture of the player
Personal Info
Born:	Date, Place
Died:	Date, Place
Professional Career
Debut:	Date, Team vs. Opponent, Stadium
Team:	Year-Year
Team:	Year-Year
Honors
Description:	Years
Description:	Years
Post-Season
Year:	level
Year:	level

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.

Contents 1 Pre-professional career 2 Professional Career 3 Post playing career 4 Records and achievements 5 Statistics 6 See also 7 External links

[edit] Pre-professional career

Paragraphs about Early life, Teams, schools, leagues, achievements, honors, notes.

[edit] Professional Career

Paragraphs about the following topics:

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

[edit] Post playing career

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

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

[edit] 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:
   • Record - rank when retired, current rank
     • e.g. 570 homeruns - finished career 3rd all time , currently in 8th place
2. List of other achievements. Introduce with Other achivenements:
   • Description, date
     • e.g. Struck out 19 batters in 8 Innings on May 29, 1997
     • e.g. Hit for cycle on July 20, 1956
     • e.g. Hit two grand slams on August 1, 1970
3. List of awards. Introduce with Awards
   • Name - year
     • e.g. Rookie of the year - 1995
     • e.g. Cy Young - 1998
     • e.g. Gold Glove Award - 2000
4. List of All-Star appearances. Introduced with All-Star appearances:
   • Year, quick notes, (major notes should be above in career section.)
5. Post-Season appearances. Introduced with Post-Season appearances
   • Year - level, honor,

[edit] Statistics

Year

AVG

G

AB

R

H

2B

3B

HR

RBI

BB

K

OBP

SLG

1999

2000

or Stats by team

Team

AVG

G

AB

R

H

2B

3B

HR

RBI

BB

K

OBP

SLG

LA Dodgers

Colorado Rockies

or Career Stats

AVG

G

AB

R

H

2B

3B

HR

RBI

BB

K

OBP

SLG

.300

for pitchers:

ERA

W

L

G

GS

GF

CG

SHO

SV

IP

H

R

ER

HR

BB

SO

HBP

WP

BFP

1999

2000

[edit] See also

• ....

[edit] External links

• ....

Appropriate categories, for example:

[[Category:2004 National League All-Stars|Bonds, Barry]]
[[Category:Pittsburgh Pirates players|Bonds, Barry]]
[[Category:San Francisco Giants players|Bonds, Barry]]
[[Category:1964 births|Bonds, Barry]]