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Originally Posted by cinemaodyssey
The site baseball reference has done a lot of updating this year, with the addition of the Negro League statistics being especially exciting. But today I've noticed they may have jumped the shark a bit. Players like Chief Bender, Dummy Hoy and countless others have been changed from how they've been traditionally addressed. Now you have to type "Billy Hoy" or "Charles Bender" to get them to come up in the search engine. I have, up til now, tried to keep the Facepack listings consistent with Baseball Reference in how they address players but I'm undecided if I'll continue to do that.
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Originally Posted by tnfoto
I noticed this a while ago and asked the chair of the SABR Biographical History Committee for SABR's policy on the B-R change. I'll update when I receive a response.
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I received a reply from SABR's Biographical History Chairman, who has not changed the "use name" for historical players and does not take an official position or stance on the baseball-reference decision to rename. I also downloaded the latest Chadwick database feed, updated two days ago, which is similarly unchanged.
At least for the time being, for SABR Pictorial History Committee tracking and photopack(s), I'll continue to keep the historical "use names" that the SABR Biographical History Committee and Chadwick recognize.