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Jimmy Wilson (baseball)

American baseball player (1920-1997)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ106920050 ↗
Source-derived summary

James Wilson (January 28, 1920 – May 2, 1997), nicknamed "Nip", was an American Negro league outfielder in the 1940s.

A native of Newberry, South Carolina, Wilson made his Negro leagues debut in 1940 with the Indianapolis Crawfords and Birmingham Black Barons. He played for Birmingham again in 1941, his final professional season. Wilson died in Woonsocket, Rhode Island in 1997 at age 77.

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“Jimmy Wilson (baseball)” enters the record as american baseball player (1920-1997). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jimmy, Wilson 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, 1997, 1940, 1941—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1920-01-28. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jimmy, Wilson and baseball.
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“Jimmy Wilson (baseball)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jimmy, Wilson and baseball provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Aug 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q106920050. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1920, 1997, 1940 and 1941.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jimmy Wilson (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.