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Welcome to the Old-time Base Ball Taskforce. This subproject, a branch of the Baseball WikiProject, is a task force devoted to improving articles of baseball players who played before 1900.

While surfing Wikipedia, I noticed that articles about players who played before 1900 aren't always as good as modern ballplayers' articles. I feel that these articles are important, since this is where our national pastime originated.

1 Joining
2 Article Template
3 Template
4 Articles that need improvement
5 Members

[edit] Joining

If you'd like to help out, just let us know at the discussion page. After you've joined, you can add your name to the Members section.

If you're interested, you can begin by browsing the "Articles that need improvement" section, doing some research, and fixing up the article. Thanks!

[edit] Article Template

On the talk page of articles of Pre-1900 players, simply put {{Baseball-WikiProject|Oldtimetaskforce=yes}}.

This will show:

Portal	WikiProject Baseball/Old-time Base Ball task force is maintained by WikiProject Baseball, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of baseball and baseball-related topics. If you would like to participate, visit the project page, or contribute to the discussion
NA	This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale.
	This non-article page is supported by Old-time Base Ball task force.
WikiProject Baseball To-do: edit Here are some tasks you can do to help with WikiProject Baseball: The current Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Article improvement drive article is New York Yankees. Requests: Keith Bucktrot, Rip Radcliff, Sandwich Pick, Trey Hillman Attention: 1873 New York Mutuals, 1947 Little League World Series, Bobby Cox, China national baseball team, National Association as a major league Expand: 2007 Major League Baseball season, Kansai Big Six Baseball League, Players League Stubs: 2005 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Batboy, Catch (baseball), Check-swing, International Baseball Federation, Korean Baseball Organization, Korean Series Images: Appeal play, Charging the mound, Corked bat, Error, Wild pitch Quality watch: 8 FA-Class Baseball articles - 6 GA-Class Baseball articles.

[edit] Template

The template can now be found at Template:Old-time Base Ball Infobox.

[edit] Articles that need improvement

Note: Just because an article is short doesn't necessarily mean it is incomplete. Information on pre-1900 baseball players can be hard to find, so a short article may actually contain all the information about that player one can possibly obtain.