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Frank Kelliher

American baseball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia

Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0

Source revisionJul 30, 2026

Entity authorityQ5487658 ↗

Source-derived summary

Francis Mortiford Kelliher (May 23, 1899 – March 4, 1956) was an American Major League Baseball player who pinch hit on one game for the Washington Senators on September 19, 1919. He went hitless in his only career at bat.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Frank Kelliher” as american baseball player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1899, 1956, 1919—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1899-05-23. The account is most persuasive where Frank, Kelliher and American can be independently traced.

Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

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 Jul 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5487658. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1899, 1956 and 1919.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

Best used for

Establishing names and roles
Building a first chronology
Locating cited institutions

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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

Establish the record: confirm the title “Frank Kelliher”, its source revision and the description used here.
Expand the search: follow Frank Kelliher primary sources, Frank Kelliher archive and Frank research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Frank Kelliher”?
Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Frank Kelliher” 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.