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Jumbo Davis

American baseball player (1861–1921)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

James J. "Jumbo" Davis was an American Major League Baseball third baseman. He played all or part of seven seasons in the majors, between 1884 and 1891, for the Brooklyn Gladiators, St. Louis Browns, Baltimore Orioles, Washington Statesmen, and two different Kansas City Cowboys teams, one in the Union Association and the other in the American Association.

Editorial summary

“Jumbo Davis” enters the record as american baseball player (1861–1921). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jumbo, Davis and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1884, 1891—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jumbo, Davis and American.
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Why this record matters

“Jumbo Davis” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jumbo, Davis and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1884 and 1891.

Critical limits

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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  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Jumbo Davis” 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.