Scott Stahoviak
American baseball player
Scott Edmund Stahoviak (born March 6, 1970) is an American former professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball for the Minnesota Twins. He attended Creighton University, and was an integral part of Creighton's NCAA College World Series appearance in 1991. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed.
Stahoviak was drafted by the Twins in the first round (27th overall) in the 1991 amateur draft. He signed with the Twins on June 13, 1991. He made his major league debut in 1993 and also played from 1995 through 1998. Stahoviak played at least part of every season in the minor leagues from 1991 until 2000 except 1996. His last two seasons were spent in the Chicago Cubs organization.
He is currently a PE teacher at Maple Middle School in Northbrook, Illinois.
“Scott Stahoviak” enters the record as american baseball player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Scott, Stahoviak and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Scott Stahoviak” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Scott, Stahoviak and American provides the most credible route into that argument.
The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7437297. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970, 1991, 1993 and 1995.
Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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.
- Establishing names and roles
- Building a first chronology
- Locating cited institutions
Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Scott Stahoviak”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Scott Stahoviak primary sources, Scott Stahoviak archive and Scott research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Scott Stahoviak”?
- How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
- Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Scott Stahoviak” 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.