Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James McMullin

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A pitcher who pitched only three games in 1887 is not that notable. BEFORE check pulled up only Baseball Reference, SABR and other databases NightWolf1223 <Howl at me•My hunts> 16:57, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. NightWolf1223 <Howl at me•My hunts> 16:57, 24 March 2025 (UTC)
• Significant coverage in [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Rank_and_File_of_19th_Century_Major/5FUIAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 this book]. BeanieFan11 (talk) 17:03, 24 March 2025 (UTC)
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• Delete: The SABR page is as bare as this is [https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/james-mcmullin/], lack of sourcing. Oaktree b (talk) 21:55, 24 March 2025 (UTC)
• Keep Were any newspapers archives searched? The book source listed above by BeanieFan11 seems reasonable to me ("The Rank and File of 19th Century Major League Baseball: Biographies of 1,084 Players, Owners, Managers and Umpires"). Literally no MLB player whose full name is known has ever been deleted. Every MLB player ever has had an article since about 2010. The only ones without articles are those whose given names aren't known. Those cases actually used to have their own articles too but a compromise was reached to list them at List of Major League Baseball players with unidentified given names. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 22:37, 24 March 2025 (UTC)
• {{ping|WikiOriginal-9}} Technically there was John Fogarty, who played two games in 1885, though maybe that should be given another look... BeanieFan11 (talk) 16:51, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
• Keep per the book source above. I did scour newspapers.com and it definitely took some digging but was able to find a few things there too. Wizardman 00:20, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
• Keep per Wizardman and WikiOriginal-9. There isn't a ton of coverage online from a century and a quarter ago, but nonetheless he has coverage in The Rank and File book and several online newspapers, such as Los Angeles Tribune, Kingston Whig-Standard and Santa Cruz Daily Surf.Rlendog (talk) 16:35, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
• Weak Keep, we probably have enough to write an NBASIC-compliant article, and the Rank and File is sufficient for SPORTCRIT. BeanieFan11 (talk) 16:52, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

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