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Dexter Fowler

American baseball player (born 1986)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

William Dexter Fowler is an American former professional baseball center fielder. He played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies, Houston Astros, Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, and Los Angeles Angels. He participated in the 2008 Summer Olympics as a member of the United States national baseball team and won the World Series with the Cubs in 2016. He led all MLB players with 72 triples during the 2010s.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Dexter Fowler” as american baseball player (born 1986). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Dexter, Fowler and American.

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—2008, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Dexter, Fowler and American providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Dexter Fowler”, the useful work is to connect “american baseball player (born 1986)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Sep 10, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2008 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dexter Fowler” 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.