Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bayside Yankees

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The result was Keep. (non-admin closure) ♪ ♫ Wifione ♫ ♪ _―Œ^{♣Łeave Ξ мessage♣}04:16, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bayside Yankees

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No notable source for team Staffwaterboy ^{Critique Me} 04:11, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:50, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I found a couple of articles in the New York papers and added them to a separate reference section, although I didn't do the work of adding them in-line to reference any part of the article. But I couldn't find anything beyond these two newspaper articles. So this moves them toward notability, but whether it puts them over the line is debatable. I do not have an opinion at this time. Herostratus (talk) 03:05, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep According to Newsday, the Bayside Yankees are a team with national recognition, winning five straight National Amateur Baseball Federation World Series titles from 1993-1997. According to PremierBaseball, the following MLB players started with the Bayside Yankees:
- Rocco Baldelli, Jason Bergmann, Tony Giarratano, Ross Gload, Tony Graffanino, Craig Hansen, Jim Johnson, John Lannan, Jon Lester, Matt Morris, Cody Ross, Garvin Alston, Mike Jerzembeck, Steve Karsay, Billy Koch, Jim Mecir, Pete Munro, Gary Scott, Frank Seminara, Joe Valentine, Peter Zoccolillo
Because of the sources and the sheer amount of talent from the team, I believe this subject satisfies general notability guidelines and should be kept. Vodello (talk) 05:03, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Teams of this sort will not normally be notable , but this seems to be an exception. Really notable alumni can count heavily towards making an organization notable DGG ( talk ) 06:23, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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