# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-newcombe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:55:35.971Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-newcombe"
name: "Don Newcombe"
slug: "don-newcombe"
description: "Donald Newcombe, nicknamed \"Newk\", was an American professional baseball pitcher who played ten non-consecutive seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He began his career in the Negro National League and ended it in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB)."
tagline: "Major League Baseball pitcher (1926–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Don_Newcombe_2009.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1926-06-14"
deathDate: "2019-02-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.955696202531646
  historical:           11.31783333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "唐·紐康伯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Newcombe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Newcombe"
    title: "Don Newcombe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Newcombe"
    title: "Don Newcombe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Newcombe"
    title: "Don Newcombe"
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    title: "ドン・ニューカム"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Newcombe"
    title: "Don Newcombe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Newcombe"
    title: "Don Newcombe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Newcombe"
    title: "Don Newcombe"
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  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Newcombe"
    title: "Don Newcombe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%9D%D1%8C%D1%8E%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B1"
    title: "Дон Ньюкомб"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump