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Lee Gooch

Baseball player and coach (1890-1966)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ6513701 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lee Currin Gooch (February 23, 1890 – May 18, 1966) was an American Major League Baseball outfielder who played for two seasons. He played for the Cleveland Indians in 1915 and the Philadelphia Athletics in 1917. Gooch also served as the head baseball coach at Duke University in 1919 and at Wake Forest University from 1949 to 1950.

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The public source identifies “Lee Gooch” as baseball player and coach (1890-1966). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Gooch, Baseball and player.

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—1890, 1966, 1915, 1917—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1890-02-23. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Gooch, Baseball and player providing the first useful test.
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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 linked authority identifier is Q6513701. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1890, 1966, 1915 and 1917.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lee Gooch” 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.