Talk:National League (baseball)

message: The article states that without the designated hitter rule ". . . the role of the manager is more important in terms of actual play".  How is this so?  -- Prometheus7Unbound 01:23, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Designated hitter 

message: The St. Louis Cardinals page indicates that the current Cardinals team evolved from the brown stockings, contradicting what this article says about only the Braves and the Cubs being modern equivalents.  Which is right?
--jcarkeys 02:10, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  St. Louis 

message: The article currently states that Philadelphia and New York were new franchises in 1883. However, I have read some other sources that indicate they were indeed transferred from older cities. The Worcester team (formed in 1880), relocated to Philadelphia, and Troy (formed 1879) moved to New York. Cincinnati, however, is the same team that it was in 1876. They were booted from the NL in 1880, spent one year playing independently, then joined the AA in 1882. The same team then transferred to the NL in 1890, along with the Brooklyn entry from 1884. David Nemec and his book The Beer and Whiskey League help shed some light on this area concerning the AA. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Baseball247 (talk • contribs) 00:21, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hence the wording "The Cubs are the only charter member to play continuously in the same city." That is a true statement. The Reds club dates from 1882. The 1876 Reds team was a different team from the 1882 team. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 12:38, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Philadelphia and New York 

message: I dont think interleague play in Toronto should count as the NL in canada because it should be determined with which teams make their home in the country, No NL team plays at home in canada. Someone who doesn't care to look at the "edit page" and doesn't know much could get the wrong idea, and even if not, it still seems incorrect to me. Crd721 (talk) 08:23, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: MLB itself spans USA and Canada. That point is a little confusing in the article. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 12:40, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The issue seems to be the flag. I just about changed it to say (Interleague play only), and then it occurred to me that although there have also been regular-season games in places like Japan, Mexico and Puerto Rico (albeit as "neutral sites), the NL itself is not based in those countries and their flags are not shown. So neither should the Canadian flag be shown. It's fair to retain the fact that MLB is in both Canada and USA. I wouldn't say this is the last word on the subject, though. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 12:44, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the accuracy tag, as the thing I objected to is gone now.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Crd721 (talk • contribs) 05:02, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If I had known that was what the tag was for, I could have removed it myself, a month ago. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 05:10, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canada-Accuracy dispute 

message: I created a timeline of the National League, and think it would be a good addition to this page. It nicely illustrates the how the league grew and changed over time. I'm pretty sure I got all the teams in there, although some of the nicknames might be a little wonky as they didn't become official for most teams till the '20s or 30's. shaggy (talk) 00:57, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timeline 

message: The math here is confusing; it lists $172 as the 2007 equivalent for $10 in the late 1800s. Shouldn't it read that it cost $10 in 2007 dollars, and XX cents in 1875 dollars?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.147.139.184 (talk) 21:17, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  NL Entry fee 

message: The article states  "... game between the Orioles and Boston Beaneaters (a precursor to the Red Sox) in 1894 ended up having tragic consequences when players became engaged in a brawl and several boys in the stands started a fire." The Red Sox didn't exist until the American League was created in 1901; the Beaneaters would've been the precursor to the Boston Braves, not the Red Sox. 199.43.48.149 (talk) 20:29, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Red Sox or Braves? 

message: NL Constitution --> National League
The orphan stub doesn't contain enough context or independent notability to remain its own page. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:55, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge 

message: The fact that the Houston club was originally the "Colt 45s," then the "Colts," and then the Astros should be made clear in the article. I don't remember when the 1st change was made but I believe it was only in the 1st season that they were the "Colt 45s." (There was a trademark dispute with the Colt Mfg. Co. that prevented them from continuing to use the "45s".) I'm really surprised that's not already in this article. 209.179.21.14 (talk) 22:57, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correction needed for Houston Colts / Colt 45s 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The 1880 Cincinnati club was a separate franchise than the 1876-79 club. I can pump you full of articles that support this. Retrosheet has corrected the record. Wiki should consider correcting theirs as well.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by SCSRdotorg (talk • contribs) 08:30, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Cincinnati Stars

message: The passage pasted below is horribly written and borderline unreadable. Seems like it was written by a 12-year-old. It may be the longest run-on sentence in the history of the English language. There must be someone with the factual expertise and writing ability who can present this info in a more orderly and grammatically correct fashion. …
(After two years of conflict in a "baseball war" of 1901–1902, the two eight-team leagues agreed in a "peace pact" to recognize each other as "major leagues", draft rules regarding player contracts, prohibiting "raiding", regulating relationships with minor leagues and lower level clubs, and with each establishing a team in the nation's largest metropolis of New York City, and the league champions of 1903 arranged to compete against each other in the new professional baseball championship tournament with the inaugural "World Series" that Fall of 1903, succeeding earlier similar national series in previous decades since the 1880s.) 72.78.108.80 (talk) 03:42, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Terrible sentence structure 

message: I've fixed the incoming links from templates, FAs, GAs and pages which contain neither "baseball" nor "MLB".  All but four were for the baseball league (though I've fixed plenty of others in the past).  About 7,500 links remain.  Do we think it's safe to change the rest of the links to National League automatically by bot into piped links to National League (baseball)? Certes (talk) 00:52, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Now halved following sterling efforts by  and others, so let's wait awhile before resorting to a bot which might make mistakes. Certes (talk) 11:12, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Post-move clean-up 

message: This article seems to be missing a simple list of winners by year. John arneVN (talk) 04:59, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It's at the linked entry List of National League pennant winners. Mindmatrix 15:29, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of Previous Winners