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Dave Bancroft has been listed as one of the Sports and recreation good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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October 11, 2012	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on May 1, 2012.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Frank Graham called Dave Bancroft (pictured) "the greatest shortstop the Giants ever had and one of the greatest that ever lived"?

A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on April 20, 2020.

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