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Jack Redmond

American baseball player (1910-1968)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ6114771
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John McKittrick Redmond (September 3, 1910 – July 27, 1968) was an American professional baseball player. He was a catcher for one season (1935) with the Washington Senators. For his career, he compiled a .176 batting average in 34 at-bats, with one home run and seven runs batted in.

An alumnus of the University of Arizona, he was born in Florence, Arizona and died in Garland, Texas at the age of 57.

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“Jack Redmond” enters the record as american baseball player (1910-1968). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jack, Redmond and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1910, 1968, 1935—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1910-09-03. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jack, Redmond and American.
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“Jack Redmond” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jack, Redmond and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6114771. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1910, 1968 and 1935.

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This entry incorporates text from Jack Redmond” 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.