Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Runt Marr

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Alpha_Quadrant ^(talk) 16:57, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Runt Marr

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Seems non-notable based on WP:BASE/N and WP:GNG, but I paused from PROD'ing it because of the Kansas Baseball Hall of Fame, which might establish notability. – Muboshgu (talk) 15:04, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions. – Muboshgu (talk) 15:11, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

From what I've found on The Sporting News, he's also been an owner of some of the teams he managed, like Springfield and Joplin. There's a sizable non-routine write-up on him on the July 9, 1942 issue. Crazy guy even traded Carl Hubbell's brother for balls and bats. It looks like he also discovered 11-time all-star Ken Boyer. He was the sole inductee into the Kansas Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953, and I think he's done quite a bit more than the run-of-the-mill minor leaguer, enough to likely warrant passing WP:GNG as opposed to many of the other articles created by the user that made this one. As such, I default to Keep on this one. Agent Vodello^{OK, Let's Party, Darling!} 15:42, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - He seems to have a decent amount of coverage here and according to this book and this book he seems to have had a chance to sign Mickey Mantle as a Cardinals scout before the Yankees but according to this book he did land Bob Gibson and Ken Boyer for the Cardinals. In addition to the Vodello coverage Vodello found, he seems to merit a keep. Rlendog (talk) 01:11, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep – I think there's just enough coverage found by Vodello and Rlendog for this to scrape past GNG. Giants2008 (27 and counting) 02:11, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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