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Bug #239
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found in Hoyt Wilhelm's player profile
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| URL: |
/ballplayers/W/Wilhelm_Hoyt.stm
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| Fixed: |
June 18, 2003
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| Reported by: |
Fred Helenius (fredh@ix.netcom.com)
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| Reported error:
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Hoyt Wilhelm's only triple came in his second season, not his second at-bat. That this is an error is confirmed by his baseball-reference.com statistics, and explicitly mentioned in the Rob Neyer article you cite on the page.
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| Original text: |
"Wilhelm hit the only home run of his lengthy career in his first ML at-bat on April 23, 1952 (and his only triple in his second at-bat)."
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| Action taken: |
Parenthetical comment deleted.
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| Revised text: |
"Wilhelm hit the only home run of his lengthy career in his first ML at-bat on April 23, 1952."
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