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A fact from Me and the Spitter appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 September 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Gaylord Perry (pictured) admitted that he had cheated in baseball in his autobiography Me and the Spitter?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2022/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Me and the Spitter.

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Maile66 (talk) 14:59, 11 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

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Gaylord Perry

... that Gaylord Perry (pictured) admitted that he cheated in baseball in his autobiography, Me and the Spitter?
- ALT1: ... that Gaylord Perry (pictured) described how he cheated in baseball in his autobiography, Me and the Spitter?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Vivien Lyra Blair

Created by Muboshgu (talk). Self-nominated at 23:09, 15 July 2022 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Slight preference to ALT1, but not too bothered by which one is picked. Z1720 (talk) 19:10, 17 July 2022 (UTC) Z1720 (talk) 19:10, 17 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hold this till September 15? --evrik ^(talk) 20:13, 30 July 2022 (UTC)Reply
- For his birthday? That's fine with me. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:37, 30 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

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