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Name
File: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.

Pre-professional career

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

Professional Career

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Paragraphs about the following topics:

  1. Draft history/Signing info
  2. Minor Leagues or Non-major professional leagues (i.e. 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. ...

Post playing career

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

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

Records and achievements

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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 achievements:
  3. List of awards. Introduce with Awards
  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,
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

See also

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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]]