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Bill Land

American baseball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ104520581 ↗
Source-derived summary

William Matthew Land (April 10, 1880 – death unknown) was an American Negro league outfielder in the 1900s and 1910s.

A native of Buckhorn, Virginia, Land made his Negro leagues debut in 1906 with the New York Colored Giants. Land then played with the Brooklyn Royal Giants and Cuban Giants in 1908. He played for both clubs again the following season, and played again for the Cuban Giants in 1911 and 1913.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Bill Land” is american baseball player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Bill, Land and American, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1880, 1906, 1908, 1911—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1880-04-10. For this dossier, Bill, Land and American is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “american baseball player” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 Nov 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q104520581. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1880, 1906, 1908 and 1911.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. 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 “Bill Land” 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.