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This is the naming conventions guideline for the naming of Wikipedia articles about baseball players, including managers, coaches, umpires and other personalities associated with the sport.
As sports go, baseball has a long, rich and well-documented history, resulting in the creation of several thousand biographical articles for baseball players. To avoid confusion among baseball biographies, and to avoid duplication of articles, a set of article naming standards has been proposed: