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Jim Tray

American baseball player (1860-1905)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ6198570 ↗
Source-derived summary

James Tray (February 14, 1860 – July 28, 1905) was an American Major League Baseball catcher for the 1884 Indianapolis Hoosiers. He played in the minors through 1889.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jim Tray” as american baseball player (1860-1905). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1860, 1905, 1884, 1889—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1860-02-14. The account is most persuasive where Tray, American and baseball can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american baseball player (1860-1905). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6198570. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1860, 1905, 1884 and 1889.

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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jim Tray” 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.