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Bob Higgins (baseball)

American baseball player (1886-1941)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ4932791 ↗
Source-derived summary

Robert Stone Higgins (September 23, 1886 – May 25, 1941) was an American Major League Baseball catcher. He played in the majors between 1909 and 1912.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Bob Higgins (baseball)” as american baseball player (1886-1941). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Higgins, baseball and American.

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—1886, 1941, 1909, 1912—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1886-09-23. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Higgins, baseball and American providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Bob Higgins (baseball)”, the useful work is to connect “american baseball player (1886-1941)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Nov 24, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4932791. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1886, 1941, 1909 and 1912.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bob Higgins (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.