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Buck Felder

American baseball player (1915-1999)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ105511583 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kendall Perkins Felder (September 25, 1915 – January 9, 1999) was an American professional baseball shortstop and second baseman in the Negro leagues. He played with the Chicago American Giants, Memphis Red Sox, and Birmingham Black Barons in 1945.

Editorial summary

“Buck Felder” enters the record as american baseball player (1915-1999). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Buck, Felder and American 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—1915, 1999, 1945—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1915-09-25. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Buck, Felder and American.
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Why this record matters

“Buck Felder” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Buck, Felder and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Jun 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q105511583. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1915, 1999 and 1945.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Buck Felder”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Buck Felder primary sources, Buck Felder archive and Buck research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Buck Felder”?
  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Buck Felder” 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.