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Don Savidge

Major League Baseball pitcher (1908–1983)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ5293474 ↗
Source-derived summary

Donald Snyder Savidge (August 28, 1908 – March 22, 1983) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the Washington Senators in 1929. His father, Ralph Savidge, was also an MLB pitcher.

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The public source identifies “Don Savidge” as major League Baseball pitcher (1908–1983). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Savidge, Major and League.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1908, 1983, 1929—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1908-08-28. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Savidge, Major and League providing the first useful test.
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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 Aug 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5293474. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1908, 1983 and 1929.

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This entry incorporates text from “Don Savidge” 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.