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Heinie Stafford

American baseball player (1891-1972)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 31, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Henry Alexander "Heinie" Stafford was an American Major League Baseball player who played a single game for the New York Giants in 1916.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Heinie Stafford” as american baseball player (1891-1972). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Heinie, Stafford and American.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1916—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Heinie, Stafford 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 “Heinie Stafford”, the useful work is to connect “american baseball player (1891-1972)” 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 Jul 31, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1916.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Heinie Stafford”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Heinie Stafford primary sources, Heinie Stafford archive and Heinie research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Heinie Stafford”?
  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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This entry incorporates text from “Heinie Stafford” 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.