NATIONAL

An article last Sunday about the Obama administration’s search for the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation misstated the current employer of a potential candidate, James B. Comey, a former deputy attorney general. He works for the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, not Lockheed Martin. The article also misstated the political affiliation of another potential candidate, Raymond W. Kelly, the New York City police commissioner. While Mr. Kelly was a Treasury Department official during the Clinton administration, he is registered as an independent voter, not as a Democrat.

SPORTS

An item 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.)

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An article last Sunday about the Memphis Grizzlies’ successful playoff run three years after making a much-maligned trade misstated Shane Battier’s history with the franchise. Battier is the only player on the Grizzlies’ current roster to have played for the team in 2001, its first season in Memphis after moving from Vancouver; he is not the lone member of the team to have played with the organization in Vancouver. (Battier was drafted by the Grizzlies in 2001 the week before the move to Memphis received the final approval from the N.B.A.; he never played for the team in Vancouver.)

METROPOLITAN

Because of an editing error, the City Critic column last Sunday about community gardens misspelled the surname of the manager of a small farm started by the High School for Public Service in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. She is Elizabeth Bee Ayer, not Ayers.