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Blytheville Giants

Minor League Baseball team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ16843564 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Blytheville Giants, based in Blytheville, Arkansas played in the Northeast Arkansas League in 1937 and 1938 as an affiliate of the New York Giants. They won the league title both years with a 62–45 record in 1937 and 70–35 record in 1938.

Previously a Blytheville team played in the same league in 1910–1911 and the Blytheville Tigers played in the Tri-State League in 1925 and 1926.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Blytheville Giants” is minor League Baseball team. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Blytheville, Giants and Minor, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1937, 1938, 1910, 1911—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1910-01-01. For this dossier, Blytheville, Giants and Minor is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “minor League Baseball team” 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

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16843564. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1937, 1938, 1910 and 1911.

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This entry incorporates text from “Blytheville Giants” 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.