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Ed Stanczak

American professional basketball player (1921–2004)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ3718874 ↗
Source-derived summary

Edmund Andrew Stanczak (August 15, 1921 – May 30, 2004) was an American professional basketball player. He played for the Anderson Packers between 1946 and 1950, then the Boston Celtics in 1950–51. In 1948–49 – Anderson's last season as a member of the National Basketball League – Stanczak led the league in games played (61) and helped them win the NBL championship.

Editorial summary

“Ed Stanczak” enters the record as american professional basketball player (1921–2004). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Stanczak, American and professional can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1921, 2004, 1946, 1950—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1921-08-15. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Stanczak, American and professional.
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Why this record matters

“Ed Stanczak” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Stanczak, American and professional provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3718874. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1921, 2004, 1946 and 1950.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ed Stanczak” 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.