Ex-Umpire Joe West is Spending his Retirement Editing his Own Wikipedia Page

[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

On January 31st, an account called Crewchief22 made a series of edits to Joe West (umpire). The first removed information about an altercation with Joe Torre, with an edit summary of "my changes corrected the lies that were in the incident with Joe Torre". The edit was not immediately reverted, so the next day, Crewchief22 returned, first making an edit which removed information about West's suspensions, next making various changes including removing the entire "Reception" section (which is not complimentary to West), and finally making a small edit summarized "grammer", which arguably made the sentence in question make less sense. These changes stayed up until February 3rd, when another user noticed them and rolled back the article to the version before Crewchief22 showed up. Undeterred, on February 8th, that account made another edit reinstating most of the previous changes it had made, and although that was reverted within 10 minutes, Crewchief22 made two more edits quickly afterward. After these were rolled back, Crewchief22 made one more edit changing the details of the incident between West and Torre, which as of now is still up.
As this is just circumstantial evidence, it's fair to ask, "How do we know this is Joe West, and not just a fan?" (if fans of Joe West are a thing...) The first thing that clued me into this is the account's name; West was a crew chief, and as we can see here, he wore #22 on his sleeve. However, the real clincher is this edit, made by a logged-out editor on Crewchief22's talk page after they were warned to stop editing disruptively. It says,

I constructively corrected the bullshit that was on this page... there was never a shoving match between Joe torre and West... I should know - I was there.
And the Federal Court order MLB to reinstate the umpires, just as I wrote.
If you aren't going to leave my page alone, please remove it completely. I don't need anyone knowing anything about me ... and I certainly don't need anyone reading things that are not true.
Either reinstate what I wrote or erase the entire page .... I'm tired of correcting your lies.

This post is signed "Joe West". I can honestly sympathize to some extent with what he's doing, especially the bit about his wife, but Wikipedia definitely isn't going to "remove it completely", and I have to believe there are better ways for him to spend his time.