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Kid McLaughlin

Major League Baseball centerfielder; college football head coach (1888-1934)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ6404511 ↗
Source-derived summary

James Anson "Kid" McLaughlin (April 12, 1888 – July 12, 1934) was a center fielder in Major League Baseball. Nicknamed "Sunshine", he played for the Cincinnati Reds in 1914.

He was also the head football and baseball coach for St. Bonaventure University.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Kid McLaughlin” is major League Baseball centerfielder; college football head coach (1888-1934). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through McLaughlin, Major and League, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1888, 1934, 1914—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1888-04-12. For this dossier, McLaughlin, Major and League is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “major League Baseball centerfielder; college football head coach (1888-1934)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6404511. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1888, 1934 and 1914.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kid McLaughlin” 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.