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Marshall Indians

defunct minor league baseball team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ16938741 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Marshall Indians were a minor league baseball team based in Marshall, Texas, United States that played from 1923 to 1927 in the East Texas League (1923–1926) and Lone Star League (1927). Notable players include Homer Peel, George Watkins and Elon Hogsett. The team finished with a winning record only once over the course of its existence, and it never finished above third place in the league.

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The public source identifies “Marshall Indians” as defunct minor league baseball team. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Marshall, Indians and defunct.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1923, 1927, 1926—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1923-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Marshall, Indians and defunct providing the first useful test.
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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 Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16938741. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1923, 1927 and 1926.

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This entry incorporates text from “Marshall Indians” 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.