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Jimmy Reynolds (baseball)

American baseball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ108321396 ↗
Source-derived summary

James E. Reynolds (December 3, 1920 – March 2, 1986) was an American Negro league outfielder in the 1940s.

A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, Reynolds played for the Birmingham Black Barons in 1946. In five recorded games, he posted two hits in 15 plate appearances. Reynolds died in Little Rock in 1986 at age 65.

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“Jimmy Reynolds (baseball)” enters the record as american baseball player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jimmy, Reynolds and baseball can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1920, 1986, 1946—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1920-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jimmy, Reynolds and baseball.
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“Jimmy Reynolds (baseball)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jimmy, Reynolds and baseball provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 Aug 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q108321396. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1920, 1986 and 1946.

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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 “Jimmy Reynolds (baseball)” 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.