User:BRMo

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I've been editing on Wikipedia since March 19, 2006. Most of my edits have been in two general areas of interest—baseball (especially some of the more obscure parts of baseball history, such as Negro leagues, early minor leagues, and early Latin American leagues) and the history of the American West, especially the Mormon settlement of Utah. I occasionally also edit a random article or make some improvements to an article I run across in a deletion discussion.

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[edit] Editorial contributions

[edit] Featured articles

Mormon handcart pioneers – I created the article on April 9, 2006 and have been its major contributor, though I also appreciate the assistance of the participants in the Mormon collaboration. This article was promoted as a featured article on September 30, 2006 and appeared on the Main page as Today's featured article on December 14, 2006.
Sandy Koufax — My main contribution to this article was to add the in-line citations that were needed for it to survive a Featured article review on March 8, 2007.

[edit] Good articles

Mormon Trail – I was one of several major contributors to this article, which attained Good article status on June 11, 2006 through the efforts of the Mormon collaboration

[edit] Did you know?

Bill Monroe (baseball player) – I created the article on February 23, 2008 and it was featured on the Main page on February 29, 2008 with the question "Did you know...that Baseball Hall of Fame manager John McGraw said that Bill Monroe 'was the greatest infielder he had ever seen'?"

[edit] Other major articles

Connie Marrero – I expanded this article from a stub. It was fun to discover that his baseball career was far longer and richer than indicated by his 39–40 major league record.
Cuban League – This was an important league that, unforunately, is largely unknown by today's baseball fans. As an integrated league, during the 1920s you could find white major leaguers like Dolf Luque and Mike González playing side by side with American and Cuban Negro league greats like Oscar Charleston, John Henry Lloyd, and Martín Dihigo. During its best seasons, the quality of play was probably comparable to the contemporary major leagues.