# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-r-richard
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:39:11.274Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-r-richard"
name: "J. R. Richard"
slug: "j-r-richard"
description: "James Rodney Richard was an American professional baseball player. He played his entire career in Major League Baseball as a right-handed starting pitcher for the Houston Astros from 1971 to 1980. Richard led the National League (NL) twice in strikeouts and was named an NL All-Star player in 1980."
tagline: "American baseball player (born 1950)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JR_Richard.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1950-03-07"
deathDate: "2021-08-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.38
  momentum:             0.6823720552396425
  historical:           8.053434666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C2%B7R%C2%B7%E7%90%86%E6%9F%A5%E5%BE%B7"
    title: "J·R·理查德"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%8A_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "جيمس رودني ريتشارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%87._%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "جيه. ريتشارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._Richard"
    title: "J. R. Richard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.R._Richard"
    title: "J.R. Richard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.R.%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89"
    title: "J.R.リチャード"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._%EB%A6%AC%EC%B2%98%EB%93%9C"
    title: "J. R. 리처드"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._Richard"
    title: "J. R. Richard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rodney_Richard"
    title: "James Rodney Richard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q665951"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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