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Bill Warren (baseball)

American baseball player

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ4911287 ↗
Source-derived summary

William Hackney Warren (February 11, 1884 – January 28, 1960), nicknamed "Hack", was an American Major League Baseball player. Warren played for the Indianapolis Hoosiers/Newark Pepper of the Federal League in 1914 and 1915. He batted and threw right-handed.

He was born in Missouri and died at his home in Whiteville, Tennessee.

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“Bill Warren (baseball)” enters the record as american baseball player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bill, Warren and baseball 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—1884, 1960, 1914, 1915—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1884-02-11. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bill, Warren and baseball.
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“Bill Warren (baseball)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bill, Warren and baseball provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4911287. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1884, 1960, 1914 and 1915.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bill Warren (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.