Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Perfect game (baseball)

Perfect game (baseball) edit

In the last year (especially since Randy Johnson's perfect performance), this article has been substantially improved, researched, and acquired international content. It's well written, detailed, and from a Major League perspective anyway, complete till the next one. It's a good job, and good enough to represent WP on the FA list. It reflects the agony (losing a perfect game to a last possible batter's hit) and the ecstasy (17 in the modern era, so far) of the topic. In the interest of full disclosure, I've been a contributor, though not for a while. ww 20:40, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Object: this is way too much of a list. Perhaps you should split the lists off into seperate pages, say, List of perfect games in Major League Baseball or List of perfect games in Japanese baseball. Furthermore, this list is not comprehensive; have there really been no perfect games in minor league baseball? Perfect games called such have also happened in a sport I won't name right now. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 22:20, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
object: a few deficiencies, I think:
1. I would have a more concise lead sentence; the current one is a little long. I might be inclined to start with "In baseball, ..." to clarify the scope right away.
2. "Several games have not qualified under this revised definition." You haven't mentioned any revision.
3. "... one of the most difficult achievements in baseball, or indeed any sport." Ditch "any sport", unless you can figure out a way to make a meaningful, quantifiable and verifiable comparison between pitching balls and, say, climbing K2 without oxygen, or rowing across the Pacific.
  - Or rephrase to say "rare" rather than difficult -- "difficult" has connotations of being physically demanding, whereas a perfect game involves a great deal of luck (as the article says). — Johan the Ghost _seance 22:30, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
4. The lead isn't a summary, and should be; I think the article body could use more text (it should completely explain the subject), and the lead a little less.
Cheers, — Johan the Ghost _seance 22:21, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I have contributed to this article a great deal, and allow me to address some of these points. Perfect games in minor-league baseball should not be in this article, because that would make it too broad in scope. The article's focus is on the seventeen perfect games in MLB history. Given how many minor league teams there are--every single MLB franchise today has five or more, plus there are still independent minor league teams out there--to include minor league perfectos would risk making this a long and bloated article. Plus, I have never seen a comprehensive list of minor-league perfect games anywhere, and would have no idea where or how to research it. If anybody does know of such a list and thinks it should be on Wikipedia, then it should definitely be a separate article....Regarding Miss Madeline's suggestion about perfect games in softball: softball is a different sport. Hence, different article....Regarding the "revised definition" of perfect games: there is indeed one game listed that did not qualify under the revised definition: Shore's game in 1917....Regarding 'any sport' and how to make a 'meaningful, quantifiable and verifiable' comparision between a perfect game in baseball and other sports: the answer is very simple. A perfect game is very quantifiable and verifiable: it has happened seventeen times in baseball history (dating back to 1876). How many times has K2 been climbed without oxygen? How many times have people rowed across the Pacific? More or less than seventeen? Is climbing K2 even a "sport" in the commonly defined sense of an athletic competition involving winners and losers?...Regarding the notion that a perfect game should be called "rare" and not "difficult": well, I invite that user to try and throw a perfect game against a major-league team. Of course throwing a perfect game is difficult. Of course it's physically demanding. Throwing a ball sixty feet with accuracy and speed in such a manner that 27 people who make their living hitting baseballs can't hit it hard is physically demanding. Even the undistinguished pitchers who threw perfect games, Robertson, Barker et al, were all tremendously good for one day. Perfect games involve the luck factor, but they also involve a great deal of skill.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.52.249.3 (talk • contribs)

Object - Although this may not be an actionable objection. I don't think that this article can be a featured article because it essentially amounts to a list of perfect games - no "brilliant prose" is really possible. The alternative - describing each perfect game in detail - could be tedious and repetitious. Something which may be actionable, though: There's a fair bit of miscellaneous detail about the perfect games pitched in the MLB, but for the Japanese league, this isn't true. However, I feel that as this article is basically a definition + list, it doesn't meet the criteria. Sorry. The Disco King 18:37, 25 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Object - simply a list. No lead in for someone that does not understand (American style) baseball. Not fit for a worldwide audience. asnatu 20:30, 27 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

So?

Comment shouldn't it be titled "Perfect game (baseball)," or at least have italic redirect text at the top noting the bowling, darts, etc. contexts? Also, needs pictures. Kaisershatner 15:08, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Object: Take it to featured lists if you wish. savidan^{(talk) (e@)} 01:44, 29 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: The naming is all wrong. It really kind of has to be Perfect game (baseball), because another sport where "perfect game" is rare and interesting is in bowling. Additionally, there are other sports, I'm sure, that would have the same interest in a perfect game, but they don't come to my American mind as quickly as bowling does. Geogre 15:19, 30 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]