# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cotton-nash
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:29:43.647Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cotton-nash"
name: "Cotton Nash"
slug: "cotton-nash"
description: "Charles Francis \"Cotton\" Nash was an American professional basketball and baseball player. He played as a forward in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Los Angeles Lakers and San Francisco Warriors, and in the American Basketball Association (ABA) for the Kentucky Colonels. He was an outfielder in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox and Minnesota Twins."
tagline: "American basketball and baseball player (1942–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cotton_Nash_Kentucky.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1942-07-24"
deathDate: "2023-05-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.68
  momentum:             2.935153583617747
  historical:           5.693954666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Nash"
    title: "Cotton Nash"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B4"
    title: "كوتون ناش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B4"
    title: "كوتون ناش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Nash"
    title: "Cotton Nash"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Nash"
    title: "Cotton Nash"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%86_%D9%86%D8%B4"
    title: "کاتن نش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3695980"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump