Talk:Willie Horton (baseball)

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[edit] Full name, siblings

Different sources vary on Horton's full name and the number of siblings he had; The Baseball Encyclopedia, Total Baseball, The Baseball Page and Baseball: The Biographical Encyclopedia give his full name as Willie Watterson Horton, while Baseball-Reference and Retrosheet give the name as William Wattison Horton. The annual Sporting News Register listed his name as William Wattison Horton through the 1969 edition, and as Willie Wattison Horton from 1970-1980. The Biographical Dictionary of American Sports gives the name as Willie Wattison Horton, and notes his mother's maiden name as Wattison. The latter volume states that he was one of 21 children, possibly using as a source Fred Smith's 1981 book 995 Tigers; The Baseball Page gives the number as 19, apparently based on a SABR member's research. MisfitToys 21:28, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Michigan

I felt like he should've been on the category for "baseball players from Michigan" - even though he was born in Virginia he grew up in Detroit and is readily identified as being a native son. So I edited it to reflect that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.209.185.166 (talk) 17:11, 18 May 2008 (UTC)