WikiTribune WikiTribune WikiTribune (stylized as WikiTRIBUNE) is a news website where volunteers write and curate articles about widely publicised news by proofreading, fact-checking, suggesting possible changes, and adding sources from other, usually long established outlets. Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, announced the site in April 2017 as a for-profit site, not affiliated with Wikipedia or its support organisation, the Wikimedia Foundation. Until October 2018, WikiTribune employed journalists with established backgrounds in the profession who researched, syndicated, and reported news. Initial crowdfunding for the site was completed in May 2017. In August 2017, Peter Bale was named as the first editor of
Jimmy Austin the ballplayers who told his story in Lawrence Ritter's classic 1965 book, "The Glory of Their Times", from which much of the information in this article came. Jimmy Austin James Phillip Austin (December 8, 1879 – March 6, 1965) was a professional baseball player and coach. Austin was born in Swansea, Wales, the son of a shipbuilder. He was one of only three Major League Baseball players to be born in Wales (the others being pitcher Ted Lewis and infielder Peter Morris). His father moved to the United States in 1885 to find work, and Austin followed in 1887. He