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Alex Gordon

American baseball player (born 1984)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Alexander Jonathan Gordon is an American former professional baseball left fielder who played his entire career for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2007 to 2020. Prior to playing professionally, Gordon attended the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where he played college baseball for the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

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The public source identifies “Alex Gordon” as american baseball player (born 1984). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Alex, Gordon and American.

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—2007, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Alex, Gordon and American providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2007 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alex Gordon” 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.