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A fact from Cal Cooper appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 October 2008, and was viewed approximately 2,515 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
He was a professional baseball player, passing the WP:ATHLETE test playing at the highest level in his sport. Does it matter how long he played? In fact, I think the fact that he only played one inning makes him even more notable. How many MLB players have that statistical anomaly? Or as the Notability guideline says: The topic of an article should be notable, or "worthy of notice"; that is, "significant, interesting, or unusual enough to deserve attention or to be recorded (bolding mine) As another example of an established Wikipedia article for a guy that played in the majors for 4 days, see Brian Smith (baseball). Cheers, (same guy, new IP, keeps changing...) 65.124.139.66 (talk) 16:13, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: He played one innings, does this get him past the formal notability bar? He sounds like he is pretty unimportant to baseball. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 06:07, 20 October 2008 (UTC)