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Monk (nickname)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ19901562 ↗
Source-derived summary

As a nickname, Monk or The Monk may refer to:

Sports

Monk Cline (1858–1916), American baseball player

Monk Dubiel (1918–1969), American baseball pitcher

Mark "Monk" Hubbard (1970–2018), American skateboarder, skatepark builder, artist, and founder of Grindline Skateparks

Antonin Magne (1904–1983), French cyclist who won the Tour de France in 1931 and 1934, nicknamed "The Monk"

Monk McDonald (1901–1977), American college athlete, head basketball coach and urologist

Jim "Monk" Moscrip (1913–1980), American gridiron football player

Monk Sherlock (1904–1985), American baseball player

Claude Simons Sr. (1887–1943), American sports coach at Tulane University

Claude Simons Jr.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Monk (nickname)” as nickname. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Monk and nickname.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1858, 1916, 1918, 1969—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Monk and nickname providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q19901562. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1858, 1916, 1918 and 1969.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Monk (nickname)” 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.