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What's the cutoff and rationale for "pre-modern" and "modern"? And why is a player like Steve Van Buren listed under pre-modern and Bruiser Kinard as modern? Lizard (talk) 06:35, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2016-08-02T06:35:00.000Z","author":"Lizard the Wizard","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-Lizard_the_Wizard-2016-08-02T06:35:00.000Z-Arbitrary_modern\u2013pre-modern_cutoff","replies":["c-Lizard_the_Wizard-2016-08-20T03:00:00.000Z-Lizard_the_Wizard-2016-08-02T06:35:00.000Z"],"displayName":"Lizard"}}-->
@Yankees10: I think we should split this into pre-merger and post-merger, if that's cool with you. Lizard (talk) 03:00, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2016-08-20T03:00:00.000Z","author":"Lizard the Wizard","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-Lizard_the_Wizard-2016-08-20T03:00:00.000Z-Lizard_the_Wizard-2016-08-02T06:35:00.000Z","replies":["c-Yankees10-2016-08-20T07:16:00.000Z-Lizard_the_Wizard-2016-08-20T03:00:00.000Z"],"displayName":"Lizard"}}-->
I don't remember why exactly but I just went by this:[1]. I think I wanted to separate them so it wasn't just a huge list and I found this was the best way--Yankees1007:16, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"2016-08-20T07:16:00.000Z","author":"Yankees10","type":"comment","level":3,"id":"c-Yankees10-2016-08-20T07:16:00.000Z-Lizard_the_Wizard-2016-08-20T03:00:00.000Z","replies":[]}}-->
