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Stan Bahnsen

American baseball player (born 1944)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Stanley Raymond Bahnsen is an American former professional baseball pitcher, who played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), primarily for the New York Yankees and the Montreal Expos. Nicknamed the "Bahnsen Burner", he once made 118 starts over a three-year stretch while playing with the Chicago White Sox in the mid-1970s.

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The public source identifies “Stan Bahnsen” as american baseball player (born 1944). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Stan, Bahnsen and American.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current 52-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Stan, Bahnsen and American providing the first useful test.
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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 22, 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Stan Bahnsen” 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.