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1996 NAIA World Series

collegiate baseball tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ114243437 ↗
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The 1996 NAIA World Series was the 40th annual tournament hosted by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics to determine the national champion of baseball among its member colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.

The tournament was played for at Lewis and Clark Park in Sioux City, Iowa.

Lewis–Clark State (53–11) defeated Saint Ambrose (42–19) in a single-game championship series, 9–0, to win the Warriors' ninth NAIA World Series and first since 1992.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1996 NAIA World Series” as collegiate baseball tournament. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where NAIA, World and Series can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as collegiate baseball tournament. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q114243437. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1996 and 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “1996 NAIA World Series” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.