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Joe Siddle

American baseball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionOct 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ108762404 ↗
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Joseph James Siddle (August 25, 1921 – September 25, 2006), nicknamed "Jumping Joe", was an American Negro league first baseman in the 1940s.

A native of Guilford County, North Carolina, Siddle played on several local semi-pro teams, and served in the US Army during World War II. In 1946, he played for the Kansas City Monarchs, and went on to play minor league baseball with the Winston-Salem Twins. Siddle died in Greensboro, North Carolina in 2006 at age 85.

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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—1921, 2006, 1946—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1921-08-25. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Siddle, American and baseball providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Joe Siddle” 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.