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Major League Baseball was one of the Sports and recreation good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
October 4, 2008	Good article nominee	Listed
October 6, 2008	Peer review	Reviewed
August 15, 2010	Good article reassessment	Delisted
December 10, 2013	Good article nominee	Listed
April 23, 2022	Good article reassessment	Delisted
Current status: Delisted good article

Baseball: Old-time Base Ball Top‑importance

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Section sizes

Section size for Major League Baseball (37 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	18,107	18,107
History	63	56,614
Founding	6,690	11,186
Other recognized leagues	4,496	4,496
Dead-ball era	6,527	6,527
Rise in popularity	3,445	3,445
World War II era	3,368	3,368
Breaking the color barrier	4,445	4,445
Women in baseball	705	705
Relocation and expansion	7,595	7,595
Pitching dominance and rule changes	3,468	3,468
New stadiums and artificial surfaces	2,976	2,976
Scandals and a changing game	2,719	2,719
Steroid era, further expansion and near contraction	2,322	2,322
The modern game	6,845	6,845
21st-century relocation and potential expansion	950	950
Teams	9,776	9,776
Organizational structure	6,776	6,776
League organization	6,926	6,926
Uniforms	8,721	8,721
Season structure	100	20,299
Spring training	1,918	1,918
Regular season	4,782	4,782
All-Star Game	6,423	6,423
Postseason	7,076	7,076
International play	6,313	6,313
Performance-enhancing drugs	10,725	10,725
Media coverage	19	40,785
Television	14,630	14,630
Blackout policy	2,250	2,250
Radio and Internet	10,152	10,152
International broadcasting	13,734	13,734
See also	1,072	1,072
Notes	54	54
References	28	28
Further reading	2,248	2,248
External links	1,192	1,192
Total	189,636	189,636

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There is a request, submitted by Catfurball, for an audio version of this article to be created. For further information, see WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia.

The rationale behind the request is: "Important".

On 14 April 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved to MLB. The result of the discussion was not moved.

Discussion regarding including the Federal League, 7 Negro Major Leagues, and 3 pre-1901 leagues into MLB Season pages

There is an ongoing discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Baseball regarding the inclusion of the Federal League into the 1914 & 1915 season pages (or their own 1914 & 1915 pages), as well as arguing whether the 7 Negro Major Leagues should be included in the 1920–1948 season pages or if each league should have their own dedicated pages.

This would also change, going forwards, the creation of the 1876 to 1900 season pages.

Please don't post opinions here, go to the WikiProject talk page linked at the top of this comment. Spesh531^{(talk, contrib., ext.)} 17:51, 27 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 7 May 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: procedural close. With a well-attended discussion less than a month ago that shows overwhelming consensus to not move, and no new rationale, this nomination is out of order. (non-admin closure) Frank Anchor 14:39, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

– This is my largest ever move request. Same as last month's RM, but with added season and postseason articles and more other lists. After successfully moving National Basketball Association (NBA)- and National Football League (NFL)-related lists, here is a list of MLB-related articles to be moved. See how many articles and lists in total? Hundreds of them. Make it 100, 200, 300, 400. 5x more than the total combined NBA and NFL articles affected by the RMs. In other words, anything that has "Major League Baseball" in the article title should be moved to be simplified to "MLB". Even the categories too... ScarletViolet (talk • contribs) 13:10, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. The exact same move request JUST failed after being almost unanimously opposed.. Did you not read the exact same thing right ahead of it? Once more... MLB is not as common a term as the NBA and NFL are so it is not the same thing. It is not as recognizable by the public so it doesn't make sense to make this move. Nothing has changed since the last move request. Spanneraol (talk) 13:16, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose and close the last RM on this topic finished 18 days ago, with clear consensus not to move. Nothing has changed since then, if you don't like that close then WP:Move review is the correct process, not starting another RM because you don't like the outcome of the first one. Joseph2302 (talk) 13:33, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
procedural close why are you requesting a move two weeks after it was snow closed!?—blindlynx 13:46, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Commissioner of Baseball (caps or lowercase)

@Oknazevad Under Organizational structure, the link title is commissioner of baseball (lowercase), which matches the first sentence of the latter article. So, if it's the title of the office, then shouldn't the latter article be capitalized too?

By the way, I find it interesting that Commissioner of Baseball (NPB) is all caps. Assadzadeh (talk) 03:22, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's his official title so it should be capitalized. Spanneraol (talk) 03:26, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Previously discussed. See archive #2. Caps is correct. oknazevad (talk) 03:29, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

OK, so I updated two instances of 'commissioner' to 'Commissioner' per MOS:JOBTITLE. If I was wrong, then feel free to revert. Assadzadeh (talk) 20:30, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion regarding including capitalization of "Major League Baseball" pre-2000 (when it wasn't yet a legal organization)

There is an ongoing discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Baseball regarding the capitalization of "Major League Baseball" when it is being used in pre-2000 season pages (1876 to 1999), as well as whether "Major League" in Timeline of Major League Baseball in the pre-2000 tables should be capitalized or not. There is currently a mixture of "major league baseball", "Major League baseball", and "Major League Baseball" in these pages, so a consensus needs to be reached.

Please don't post opinions here, go to the WikiProject talk page linked at the top of this comment. Spesh531^{(talk, contrib., ext.)} 15:59, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]