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Eddie Jefferson (baseball)

American baseball player (1922-1987)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ106835540 ↗
Source-derived summary

Edward Lawrence Jefferson (November 27, 1922 – February 26, 1987) was an American Negro league pitcher in the 1940s.

A native of Selma, Alabama, Jefferson played for the Philadelphia Stars in 1945 and 1946. In 14 recorded appearances on the mound, he posted a 2–1 record with a 5.53 ERA in 53.2 innings. Jefferson died in Oxon Hill, Maryland in 1987 at age 64.

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“Eddie Jefferson (baseball)” enters the record as american baseball player (1922-1987). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Eddie, Jefferson and baseball can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1922, 1987, 1945, 1946—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1922-11-27. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Eddie, Jefferson and baseball.
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“Eddie Jefferson (baseball)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Eddie, Jefferson and baseball provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Aug 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q106835540. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1922, 1987, 1945 and 1946.

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This entry incorporates text from “Eddie Jefferson (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.