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I looked up pitcher Steve Hamilton to see if a basketball card was printed during his NBA days (answer is NO) ... and I noticed that this site lists his DOB as 1934, but all his baseball cards say 1936.  Does that mean you'll have a bunch of UER edits to add?  I don't want to give you extra work and it may not be worth doing anyway.  How do know for sure what anyone's birthday is?  However, it's possible that Hamilton wanted an extra couple of years as he was going prematurely grey, LOL.

I'm looking at the 1970 Topps Roberto Peña card, which you have listed as a UER for his Date of Birth, saying it should be 1937, instead of what the card says (1940).  Even if it says 1937 on the Baseball Reference website, is it really true?!  I'll conced that back in the old days, there was talk about some Latin players fudging their DOBs ... maybe that's true here. 

On the other hand, what do we say about Vic Davalillo?  All his Topps cards thru 1974 said he was born in 1939.  But, when the Dodgers dug him up from the Mexican League in 1977, the broadcasters joked about how he "lost" three years.  Sure enough, his 1978 Topps card says he was born in 1936, but Baseball Reference still says 1939, so which is right?

Not sure about other editors, but I check multiple places to confirm birthdates. I've seen cases where MLB.com and B-R didn't match up, so I check TheBaseballCube or something else. I know a majority of the Sammy Sosa and Felix Jose cards have been updated already. Also need to confirm the players are the same as there could be two or more Steve Hamiltons or whatever. (I just ran into an issue yesterday where three different players with the same name were combined into one ID and two of the players had the same birth year.)

This came up not too long ago. If I remember correctly, if the manufacturer used the DOB that was provided to them then it wouldn't be a UER concern; they utilized the supposedly correct information. If they had the right DOB and didn't fix it on that particular release then a UER would be appropriate.