Help us find and connect next week's Connection Finder profiles: Baseball Favorites [closed]

+14 votes
275 views

It's time for the World Series and we're thinking about our favorite baseball players this week! We're featuring your favorites, both living and deceased (and maybe even playing for the title!) next week in the Connection Finder, starting with Mickey Mantle

We're looking for other favorites, greats, and legends to feature with him.

Here's who we're getting started on:

Can you help with these profiles, or expand their families? Adding relatives in any direction helps with connections. Every missing relative you add will make our connections to them closer.

Who else should we feature? Do they need a profile?

All profiles we feature need a good biography and a connection to the big tree. We also want each one to have an image, and the image needs to have proper source attribution explaining why it's in the public domain or why we have the right to display it.

We can't feature everyone mentioned (we only have room for eleven per week), but if we don't feature a profile you work on, we may use it sometime in the future. And, of course, all contributions help improve our shared tree.

We'll make a final decision on which ones to feature early next week.

Please reply here with what you're working on so that we don't duplicate our efforts. Thank you!

To help us plan future themes, see the 2021 Example Profile Plans post here.

WikiTree profile: Mickey Mantle
closed with the note: Feature has run: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1313952/which-baseball-favorite-are-you-most-closely-connected-to
in The Tree House by Abby Glann G2G6 Pilot (742k points)
closed by Abby Glann

6 Answers

+12 votes

Jackie Roosevelt Robinson

No blood relation. He's connected!

by Eileen Robinson G2G6 Pilot (206k points)
Interesting!
+13 votes

Negro Leagues players on Wikitree:

Josh Gibson (needs connection)

James "Cool Papa" Bell (needs connection)

Satchel Paige (needs connection)

by C Handy G2G6 Pilot (212k points)
+8 votes

If you'd like to include a woman in the mix, there's always Jackie Mitchell.

by Mel Bishop G2G6 Mach 7 (72.2k points)
+7 votes

Ichiro Suzuki is well-loved and famed for having the longest streak and the most hits out of any players in professional baseball.
There's no connection or relationship finding tool on his profile, though. (I'm still kind of new on WikiTree. Why do some profiles not have that tool at the bottom of their page? Can it be fixed?) https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/%E9%88%B4%E6%9C%A8-8

by Jennifer Fulk G2G6 Mach 6 (61.0k points)
The Relationship / Connection Finder only shows at the bottom of a profile when that person is actually Connected to the main Tree.
+7 votes

Who else should we feature?

Joe DiMaggio

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/DiMaggio-19

by Judi Stutz G2G6 Pilot (338k points)
+7 votes
Ty Cobb

Shoeless Joe Jackson

JimThome

Vada Pinson

Del Unser

John Lowenstein

Gomer Hodge

Suggestions, they have interesting stories .
by Clifford Carter G2G6 Mach 2 (24.7k points)

Related questions

WikiTree  ~  About  ~  Help Help  ~  Search Person Search  ~  Surname:

disclaimer - terms - copyright

...