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1999 Baltimore Orioles–Cuba national baseball team exhibition series has been listed as one of the Sports and recreation good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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Date	Process	Result
April 18, 2013	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on March 24, 2013.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that a 1999 exhibition series between the Baltimore Orioles and Cuban national baseball team marked the first time a Major League Baseball team played in Cuba since 1959?

GA Review

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Reviewer: Go Phightins! (talk · contribs) 03:24, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A seemingly interesting topic, I will take care of this review. Go Phightins! 03:24, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I am sorry I forgot about this. Now I will begin.

Some general comments in somewhat chronological order:

I don't think the lead does a very good job at all of summarizing the content in the article; it does an adequate job of summarizing the buildup, by information on the other key sections (the "during" and the "after") is lacking in a big way.
Terrific background section; well-cited, interesting, and informative.
I will AGF on the sources behind a paywall; the only two subscriptions I have are ESPN Insider and HighBeam, none of the newspapers, so I cannot really check those sources.
Call me a nerd, but I would like to know a little bit about the umpires for the series...were they American, Cuban, a mix? Did the MLB Umpires Union have anything to say about the series? Did they get paid extra for going to such a country? If so by whom? I would just like a little information, as that seems like it has potential to be an interesting sub-plot.
The "aftermath" section could use a few additional references...they are a tad sparse, though that article substantiating paragraph one is good. This is a minor concern, though.
I seem to recall that captions to images should not have ending punctuation

Other than that, great job! Go Phightins! 21:18, 8 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review. I'll make the needed changes in the next day or so. A couple quick responses for now though...

Yeah the lead is too short. I think I recall saying that to myself even as I nominated the article, and yet I haven't expanded it. I'll get on that.
I can add detail on umpires. I believe it was a mix. And thank you for giving me permission to call you a nerd :)
In addition to the lead, I thought the "Aftermath" might be the other area needing some beef up.
Image captions should end in punctuation if they are full sentences. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:20, 9 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I've done some work on this now. Let's see if I've done enough...

Lead has been expanded. I think the major points are covered.
I added information on the umpiring as I could find it. MLB umpires refused to work the series, so it was a mix of minor league and Cuban umpires, though I can't find a full roster of them.
The aftermath section has been expanded. One of said Cuban umpires defected in 2009, and I mentioned the WBC. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:32, 13 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I also made mention of the 1999 Major League Umpires Association mass resignation. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:31, 13 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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