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Bill Mack (baseball)

American baseball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ4909998 ↗
Source-derived summary

William Francis Mack (February 12, 1885 – September 30, 1971) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the Chicago Cubs in July 1908. He was the last surviving player to have played for the 1908 Chicago Cubs, their most recent World Series championship until 2016.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Bill Mack (baseball)” as american baseball player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1885, 1971, 1908, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1885-02-12. The account is most persuasive where Bill, Mack and baseball can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american baseball player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

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 Aug 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4909998. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1885, 1971, 1908 and 2016.

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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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Bill Mack (baseball)” 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.