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Tom Magrann

American baseball player (born 1963)

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 11, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Thomas Joseph Magrann is an American former Major League Baseball player. A catcher, Magrann played for the Cleveland Indians in 1989.

Editorial summary

“Tom Magrann” enters the record as american baseball player (born 1963). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Magrann, American and baseball can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Magrann, American and baseball.
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Why this record matters

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

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 Dec 11, 2025. The first chronological checks are 1989.

Critical limits

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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tom Magrann” 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.