Talk:David "Stringbean" Akeman

message: On more than one occasion, an attempt has been made to correct the redundancy of introducing Akeman's baseball career in two separate paragraphs.  This is met with resistance and the redundancy is reinstated by a subsequent editor.  Why?  It doesn't read better that way and the history is not distorted by holding it back until the fourth paragraph.  If someone insists on restoring the original edit, please explain why in this space.  Thank you.  Rasdock (talk) 21:58, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early Life and Career 

message: I haven't seen any source for the claim that $20,000 cash was found in the cabin in 1996.  A woman commenting here claims it is a false story.
http://www.wsmv.com/story/23921086/40-years-passed-since-murder-of-opry-star-stringbean-akeman
"There was never any hidden money found. That was staged by someone renting the house. I would know. My parents owned it at the time. Complete fabrication that unfortunately gained notoriety before any attempt to verify."
Wondering if anyone has any back-up for the story.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.188.89.180 (talk) 07:27, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: For what it's worth, I've found exactly one mention of the 1996 cash finding—in AP https://apnews.com/article/63a33a22be1c403a821aa6d105a34d9f from an article about one of the murderers getting paroled. Anachronistic coffee cup (talk) 17:55, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: This article does not state that he kept cash in his residence, nor did it state that when the first post above was made in 2014. People should read an article before jumping to conclusions about the contents of the article. Sundayclose (talk) 18:58, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Story of cash found in 1996 false? 

message: Here, the birthdate says "June 1915", but in the linked article, he's said to have been born July 4, 1916: https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2014/10/15/peter-cooper-1973-killings-brought-fear-to-nashville/17306095/ Dpm12 (talk) 01:21, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth date wrong? 

message: 2. The article gives a lot of information, but said information needs to be a little more fact checked. I noticed a previous comment mentioned that there are conflicting birthdates, and the change has not been made yet within the article. There could also be some more references and in text citations added. There are only two references right now, and with some of the 'factual' information within the article being wrong, it would be helpful to find more references to do some fact checking with. With the large amount of information given, it would be helpful to have more references to prove that the information is without a doubt accurate.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by StringBassPlaya (talk • contribs) 17:40, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: PeerReview

message: In the book "Kentucky Country: Folk and Country Music of Kentucky" on page 125 it stated "Though most histories give Stringbean's birth as 1915, His brother Robert has checked the family bible and has confirmed it was 1914". I'm not sure how to go about using a book as reference so I'll just put it here and if anyone wants to check it out and change it, feel free. you can find a screenshot of the book and page in question at https://books.google.com/books?id=ZJIfBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA125&lpg=PA125&dq=string+bean+birth+year&source=bl&ots=NGua1Wu58t&sig=ACfU3U3v-xCkooMofl1EOGcZhS9xR1HfNg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiu1f_qi67oAhXL854KHQMXAGAQ6AEwEHoECBYQAQ#v=onepage&q=string%20bean%20birth%20year&f=false 63.140.72.227 (talk) 12:45, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  birthdate