# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-niekro
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:28:18.105Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-niekro"
name: "Joe Niekro"
slug: "joe-niekro"
description: "Joseph Franklin Niekro was an American professional baseball pitcher. During a 22-year baseball career, he pitched from 1967 to 1988 for seven different teams, primarily for the Houston Astros."
tagline: "American baseball player (1944–2006)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joe_Niekro_-_Houston_Astros_-_1976.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1944-11-07"
deathDate: "2006-10-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.57
  momentum:             0.8626120668766659
  historical:           5.828054666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Niekro"
    title: "Joe Niekro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "چو نيكرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Niekro"
    title: "Joe Niekro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%96%AC%C2%B7%E5%B0%BC%E5%8F%AF%E7%BE%85"
    title: "喬·尼可羅"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD"
    title: "ジョー・ニークロ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Niekro"
    title: "Joe Niekro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q329944"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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