BR Bullpen:Notability

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People

People who satisfy at least one of the items below generally merit their own articles:

• played professional baseball
• played baseball for a national team in adult international competetion
• was an owner of a professional baseball club
• was an front office executive for a professional baseball club
• was a manager of a professional baseball club
• was a scout for a professional baseball club (or league)
• was an umpire for a professional baseball league
• was a league president (or equivalent) of a professional baseball league
• is a researcher whose work is citied by more than X articles
• was a United States President after 1860
• authors who have published more than one noteworthy book
• collegiate coaches who have taken a team to the NCAA Division-I College World Series
• is in any one of the following Halls of Fame:
  • Baseball Reliquary
  • Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame
  • Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame
  • Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (United States)
  • Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
  • Salón de la Fama (Mexico)
  • Salón de la Fama (Venezuela)
• winners of any one of the awards listed in Category:Awards, with the exception of the All-American Award
• persons drafted in the first round of a Major League Baseball draft

People who satisfy at least one of the items below may merit their own articles based on a case-by-case basis:

• collegiate players
• collegiate coaches
• persons drafted by professional clubs
• fans of baseball
• political figures
• writers
• authors

Leagues

Leagues that satisfy at least one of the items below generally merit their own articles:

• players were professionals
• the league is/was at the top level of baseball in the country

Teams

Teams that satisfy at least one of the items below generally merit their own articles:

• the players were professionals
• the league that the team is/was in at the top level of baseball in the country

Books

Books that satisfy at least one of the items below generally merit their own articles:

• a non-fiction book that is cited as a reference or source
• a non-fiction book that is about baseball and whose author has written more than one book on the subject of baseball
• a fiction book that is about baseball as a central element to the story