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Dwight Taylor (baseball)

American baseball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ5318248 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dwight Bernard Taylor (born March 24, 1960) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played during one season at the major league level for the Kansas City Royals. He was drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the 7th round of the 1981 amateur draft. Taylor, played his first professional season with their Class A Waterloo Indians in 1981 and split his last season in 1992 between the Cincinnati Reds' Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts and Triple-A Nashville Sounds.

References

"Dwight Taylor Statistics". The Baseball Cube. 10 January 2008.

"Dwight Taylor Statistics". Baseball-Reference. 10 January 2008.

Editorial summary

“Dwight Taylor (baseball)” enters the record as american baseball player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dwight, Taylor and baseball 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—1960, 1981, 1992, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1960-03-24. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dwight, Taylor and baseball.
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“Dwight Taylor (baseball)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Dwight, Taylor and baseball provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Jul 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5318248. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1960, 1981, 1992 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dwight Taylor (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.