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Mark Clark (baseball)

American baseball player (born 1968)

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

Mark Willard Clark is an American former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. He pitched all or parts of ten seasons in the majors.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Mark Clark (baseball)” as american baseball player (born 1968). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mark, Clark and baseball.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current 24-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mark, Clark and baseball providing the first useful test.
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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 28, 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mark Clark (baseball)” 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.