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Bob Friedrichs

Major League Baseball pitcher (1906-1997)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ4932471 ↗
Source-derived summary

Robert George Friedrichs (August 30, 1906 – April 15, 1997) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the Washington Senators.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Bob Friedrichs” as major League Baseball pitcher (1906-1997). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1906, 1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1906-08-30. The account is most persuasive where Friedrichs, Major and League can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as major League Baseball pitcher (1906-1997). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Jul 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4932471. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1906 and 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bob Friedrichs” 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.