Frank Thomas Forum

 There appears to be 2 different Frank Thomas players in the database that should (if possible) be separated.  There was one with cards from the 1960s, and I assume the rest from the 80s onward would be the Hall of Famer.

  The older (1960's) is listed under Frank J. Thomas (of).   If you go through baseball, then names, it shows up fine.  Is going in another way causing problems?

 I typed Frank Thomas in the search engine under the baseball tab (top of main page), and the Frank Thomas link at the top of the search result directs me to the following page, which lists a few cards from the late 50s and early 60s: www.tradingcarddb.com/Person.cfm/pid/5836/Frank-Thomas

I see what you mean.  Oddly, I have never used that feature.   I go to baseball, then to players and find the name that way.   Less confusion, for me anyway, then I can pick and choose among "same'" names.

This is fixed now.

Thanks,

The Trading Card Database

In the Frank Thomas (HOF) list of cards, the first card listed is "1982 Galasso 20 Years of New York Mets #19 Frank Thomas".  These are New York Mets players, so certainly this would be the older Frank Thomas from the 50's & 60's and should be removed from the HOF Frank Thomas list of cards.

I fixed this one. But this is one of the few glitches in the system that I don't have a suggestion on how to easily fix.
I collect former TCU Horned Frogs and so I have to go check football player Kevin White (TCU, CB, drafted in 2015 by Atlanta) and make sure his newly added cards aren't going to Kevin White (West Virgina, WR, drafted in 2015 by Chicago).
The system seems to default to the earliest PID (in this case, WR Kevin White). I swear though, that I have had checklists upload where a player with an identical name didn't automatically link and I had to go in and actually verify which player it was.
In the Frank Thomas case, most of of Frank J. Thomas's (whose PID is actually first) cards list him as simply Frank Thomas and there is technically only one "Frank Thomas" in the DB.
 

anything worth doing should not be easy, LOL!  I don't know your system, but I have set up several of my own multi player databases.  There is probably no easy way to separate players with the same name except upon entering them into the database and assigning a unique playerid.  That is how I did it before.  Then when a user selects a player it would populate only that unique playerid.  Probably how it is already set up though.

We once discussed on the forum how great and helpful it would be if there was an overall list of names that could not be duplicated, like is done in Hollywood. There isn't though, and all we can do is correct PIDs when an error pops up.

It's challenging when there are two people with the same name, it's even harder when they are both active at the same time.

I'll just say here that I met the old Frank Thomas in Cooperstown on other Frank Thomas's induction weekend. I loved him and immediately got all his cards. He's "the original Met," and was a heckuva hitter. 

Glad you sorted this out. 

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