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Major League Baseball was one of the Sports and recreation good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
October 4, 2008	Good article nominee	Listed
October 6, 2008	Peer review	Reviewed
August 15, 2010	Good article reassessment	Delisted
December 10, 2013	Good article nominee	Listed
April 23, 2022	Good article reassessment	Delisted
Current status: Delisted good article

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Section sizes

Section size for Major League Baseball (37 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	18,631	18,631
History	63	56,761
Founding	6,587	11,083
Other recognized leagues	4,496	4,496
Dead-ball era	6,488	6,488
Rise in popularity	3,445	3,445
World War II era	3,368	3,368
Breaking the color barrier	4,445	4,445
Women in baseball	705	705
Relocation and expansion	7,595	7,595
Pitching dominance and rule changes	3,468	3,468
New stadiums and artificial surfaces	2,976	2,976
Scandals and a changing game	2,719	2,719
Steroid era, further expansion and near contraction	2,322	2,322
The modern game	7,114	7,114
21st-century relocation and potential expansion	970	970
Teams	9,821	9,821
Organizational structure	6,776	6,776
League organization	6,929	6,929
Uniforms	8,721	8,721
Season structure	100	20,309
Spring training	1,918	1,918
Regular season	4,792	4,792
All-Star Game	6,423	6,423
Postseason	7,076	7,076
International play	6,313	6,313
Performance-enhancing drugs	10,725	10,725
Media coverage	19	40,785
Television	14,630	14,630
Blackout policy	2,250	2,250
Radio and Internet	10,152	10,152
International broadcasting	13,734	13,734
See also	1,072	1,072
Notes	54	54
References	28	28
Further reading	2,248	2,248
External links	1,248	1,248
Total	190,421	190,421

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On 14 April 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved to MLB. The result of the discussion was not moved.

Commissioner of Baseball (caps or lowercase)

@Oknazevad Under Organizational structure, the link title is commissioner of baseball (lowercase), which matches the first sentence of the latter article. So, if it's the title of the office, then shouldn't the latter article be capitalized too?

By the way, I find it interesting that Commissioner of Baseball (NPB) is all caps. Assadzadeh (talk) 03:22, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's his official title so it should be capitalized. Spanneraol (talk) 03:26, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Previously discussed. See archive #2. Caps is correct. oknazevad (talk) 03:29, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

OK, so I updated two instances of 'commissioner' to 'Commissioner' per MOS:JOBTITLE. If I was wrong, then feel free to revert. Assadzadeh (talk) 20:30, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion regarding including capitalization of "Major League Baseball" pre-2000 (when it wasn't yet a legal organization)

There is an ongoing discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Baseball regarding the capitalization of "Major League Baseball" when it is being used in pre-2000 season pages (1876 to 1999), as well as whether "Major League" in Timeline of Major League Baseball in the pre-2000 tables should be capitalized or not. There is currently a mixture of "major league baseball", "Major League baseball", and "Major League Baseball" in these pages, so a consensus needs to be reached.

Please don't post opinions here, go to the WikiProject talk page linked at the top of this comment. Spesh531^{(talk, contrib., ext.)} 15:59, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]