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Norris Phillips

American baseball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ105603505 ↗
Source-derived summary

Norris "Playboy" Phillips (June 18, 1916 - February 4, 1996) was an American professional baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues. He played with the Memphis Red Sox in 1942 and the Kansas City Monarchs in 1942 and 1943.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Norris Phillips” is american baseball player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Norris, Phillips 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, 1996, 1942, 1943—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1916-06-18. For this dossier, Norris, Phillips and American is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “american baseball player” 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 Aug 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q105603505. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1916, 1996, 1942 and 1943.

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.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Norris Phillips”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Norris Phillips primary sources, Norris Phillips archive and Norris research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Norris Phillips”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Norris Phillips” 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.