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Part (b) discipline
Lead: Every name in this section's national roll comes from the hall's own roster or the hall's own reporting — not from a fame list, a hometown claim, or an aggregator — and every tie is stated at exactly the strength that record states it, with the as-of date, November 2026, printed at the head of the enumeration.
Applied, the rule does three things to this town's roll. It admits one name: Garrett Curless, whose tie is the one the World Wiffle Ball Championship itself printed — of the New Carlisle Newts — and admits him at that strength only, with no birthplace, schooling or residence added. It holds two famous names outside the roll without diminishing them: Schuyler Colfax, whose New Carlisle tie is real and documented — resident from 1836, clerk in his stepfather's store and post office, removed to South Bend in 1841 — but who stands in no hall tested here; and Richard Risley Carlisle, whose tie is a founder's purchase and naming in 1835, printed as a founder's tie and never inflated into born-here or raised-here, and whose name the circus hall's published roll does not carry. And it prints the empty halls as empty, each named, so that a future class in any of them can be added against a dated blank rather than against silence. If a later roster adds a town name, this discipline — hall's own record, tie exact, as-of dated — is the rule it must be added under.
Sources:
- The rosters and hall reporting cited in the frame and by-sport articles of this section, each read as of November 2026.