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Checked name by name. The sports register was built athlete by athlete out of the standard registers, each of which keeps a birthplace roll that can be audited: Pro Football Reference (the Indiana birthplace roll), Basketball Reference (its Indiana birthplace table), Baseball Reference and its Bullpen wiki, The Baseball Cube (whose Fort Wayne birthplace roll the leg checked entire — nineteen names, nineteen written), the SABR and AAGPBL player registers, Retrosheet, hockeyDB, the Fort Wayne Komets' own retired-numbers and hall-of-fame record with the ECHL's, MiLB.com for the minor-league line, Olympedia — whose athlete records settled, among others, the Vogel, Wichman and Nathan cases file by file — the International Swimming Hall of Fame, the Indiana Basketball and Football Halls of Fame, and the PGA, LPGA and USGA records for the golfers. Where a register and an obituary disagree about a birthplace, the disagreement is printed: Bud Mahurin's obituaries claim Fort Wayne and the registers say Benton Harbor, and the registers are right. Where a famous claim fails the register test, it fails in print here: Mason Plumlee's gold medal is a 2014 FIBA World Cup medal, and no register makes him an Olympian.
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- The sports-players and sports legs.