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Al Williams (1930s pitcher)

American baseball player (1914–1969)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 3, 2024
Entity authorityQ4704969 ↗
Source-derived summary

Almon Edward "Al" Williams (May 11, 1914 – July 19, 1969) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played in 1937 and 1938 with the Philadelphia Athletics. He batted and threw right-handed.

Editorial summary

“Al Williams (1930s pitcher)” enters the record as american baseball player (1914–1969). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Williams, 1930s and pitcher can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1914, 1969, 1937, 1938—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1914-05-11. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Williams, 1930s and pitcher.
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Why this record matters

“Al Williams (1930s pitcher)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Williams, 1930s and pitcher provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 3, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q4704969. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1914, 1969, 1937 and 1938.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Al Williams (1930s pitcher)” 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.