Notable corrections of 2011 include origin of name RA Dickey gave one of his bats

12/29/11, "Ombuds pick their notable corrections of 2011," Poynter.org

• "New York Times: Greg Brock, Senior Editor/Standards"

"A report in the Extra Bases baseball notebook last Sunday misidentified, in some editions, the origin of the name Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver, which Mets pitcher R. A. Dickey gave one of his bats. Orcrist was not, as Dickey had said, the name of the sword used by Bilbo Baggins in the Misty Mountains in ”The Hobbit.” Orcrist was the sword used by the dwarf Thorin Oakenshield in the book. (Bilbo Baggins’s sword was called Sting.)."

Tweet Stumbleupon StumbleUpon