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Blaze Jordan

American baseball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ126005548
Source-derived summary

Blaze Jordan (born December 19, 2002) is an American professional baseball third baseman and first baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2026.

Amateur career

Jordan rose to prominence as a child when he went viral after hitting a 395-foot (120 m) home run at Globe Life Park in Arlington at age 11 and a 500-foot (150 m) home run at age 13. In eighth grade, he committed to play college baseball at Mississippi State University. He attended DeSoto Central High School in Southaven, Mississippi.

In 2019, he hit .440 with ten home runs and 46 RBIs. Following the season, he reclassified from the class of 2021 to the class of 2020. That summer, he won the 2019 High School Home Run Derby at Progressive Field, hitting a total of 27 home runs over three rounds. He also played in the Under Armour All-America Baseball Game and the Perfect Game All-American Classic.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 2026, 2019, 2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2002-12-19. The account is most persuasive where Blaze, Jordan and American can be independently traced.
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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

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 Aug 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q126005548. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002, 2026, 2019 and 2021.

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 Blaze Jordan” 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.