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Harry Jordan

American baseball player (1873-1920)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 30, 2024
Entity authorityQ5670132 ↗
Source-derived summary

Harry James Jordan (February 14, 1873 – March 1, 1920) was a professional baseball player. He pitched for the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League during parts of the 1894 and 1895 seasons. He later played in the Eastern League in 1896 and the Interstate League in 1897 and 1898.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Harry Jordan” as american baseball player (1873-1920). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Harry, Jordan and American.

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—1873, 1920, 1894, 1895—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1873-02-14. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Harry, Jordan and American providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Harry Jordan”, the useful work is to connect “american baseball player (1873-1920)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

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 Dec 30, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q5670132. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1873, 1920, 1894 and 1895.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Harry Jordan” 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.