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Fred Mann (baseball)

Major League Baseball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ5495857 ↗
Source-derived summary

Fred J. Mann (April 1, 1858 – April 6, 1916) was an American center fielder in Major League Baseball for six seasons, and played for five different teams.

He was born in Sutton, Vermont and debuted with the Worcester Ruby Legs in 1882. In 1884, Mann's seven home runs was tied for fourth in the American Association.

After his baseball career was over, Mann ran a hotel in Springfield, Massachusetts. He died of prostate cancer and is interred at Oak Grove Cemetery in Springfield.

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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—1858, 1916, 1882, 1884—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Fred, Mann and baseball is the immediate research focus.
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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 Jul 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5495857. The first chronological checks are 1858, 1916, 1882 and 1884.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fred Mann (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.