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Originally Posted by dcd111
At least one of the "Did you know?" facts is almost certainly not true. I don't have the exact wording in front of me, but it says that Johnny Plessey batted .331 for the 1891 Cleveland Spiders with a lacquered rolled up copy of the Toledo Dispatch. Searching around the web, I see this in a lot of places where baseball trivia and "strange facts" are listed, worded almost exactly the same way as each other, but none of these seem to be the origin of the "fact" or link to any other reference to it. Looking it up quickly on Baseball Reference there was no such player on the 1891 Spiders, nor is there any player by that name in their database. Also, that average would have put him second in the National League in 1891, and he's not listed with the league leaders. Even without any research, it seems pretty far-fetched and sounds more like something a marketing guy made up to emphasize how many pages are in the Toledo Dispatch.
EDIT: Since there are probably several factoids like this that were taken at face value (I know the developers don't have the time to fact-check this sort of thing, understandably), maybe there should be a thread in this forum for these items, where people who want to research them can let the developers know when an apparent fact isn't really a fact. |
"Did you know?" can either be from hints.txt or from your own league's history. In this case, it's hints.txt that provides the line.
As no 1891 Spider batted over .289 and no player named Johnny Plessey exists, I assume this is Electric Boog Alou part 2.
This joke page lists it along with several other obvious falsehoods.
REQUEST: OOTP should clearly identify in-game stats instead of using "Did you know?" to prevent further confusion.