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Mike Garbark

American baseball player (1916-1994)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ6846951 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nathaniel Michael Garbark (February 3, 1916 – August 31, 1994) was an American Major League Baseball player. Garbark played for the New York Yankees in 1944 and 1945. He batted and threw right-handed.

He was born in Houston, Texas and died in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Garbark's brother, Bob Garbark, also played in the Majors.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mike Garbark” is american baseball player (1916-1994). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mike, Garbark and American, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1916, 1994, 1944, 1945—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1916-02-03. For this dossier, Mike, Garbark and American is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “american baseball player (1916-1994)” 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

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6846951. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1916, 1994, 1944 and 1945.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mike Garbark” 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.