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Nick Fanti

baseball player (1996-)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ28648828
Source-derived summary

Nicholas Fanti (born December 30, 1996) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Staten Island FerryHawks of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 31st round of the 2015 Major League Baseball draft.

Career

Fanti attended Hauppauge High School in Hauppauge, New York. As a senior, he pitched consecutive no-hitters for the school's baseball team. In his senior year, he won the Carl Yastrzemski Award, given to the best high school baseball player in Suffolk County. He committed to attend Marist College.

Philadelphia Phillies

The Philadelphia Phillies drafted Fanti in the 31st round, with the 924th overall selection, of the 2015 Major League Baseball draft. He signed with the Phillies, and made his professional debut with the Gulf Coast Phillies of the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League after he signed, posting a 2.55 ERA in 1.72 innings. He also pitched for the Gulf Coast Phillies in 2016, going 7-0 with a 1.57 ERA in 11 games. Fanti pitched for the Italian national baseball team in the 2017 World Baseball Classic.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Nick Fanti” as baseball player (1996-). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1996, 2015, 2016, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996-12-30. The account is most persuasive where Nick, Fanti and baseball can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as baseball player (1996-). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

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 Aug 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28648828. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996, 2015, 2016 and 2017.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. 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 Nick Fanti” 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.