At the boundary, IV: Jasper's baseball hall, Freddie Fitzsimmons — and the birthplace printed whole

Indiana Baseball Hall of Fame, Jasper — inducted 1992

The induction: Freddie Fitzsimmons won 217 major-league games, pitched in three World Series and won one, in 1933, and in 1992 the Indiana Baseball Hall of Fame at Jasper inducted him. The induction is carried by the City of Mishawaka's own historic-marker text, by Baseball-Reference's Bullpen and by the baseball record generally; the hall's own published roster page was not reached and is named in the expand note as the settling pull. Mishawaka High School's hall followed in 2019, as the seated entry above records. At Cooperstown there is nothing: no player born or raised in Mishawaka stands inducted in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in the record, and Fitzsimmons's own biographer closes the question in so many words — Fitz is not in the Baseball Hall of Fame, and the biography does not make the case.

The conflict, whole: Where Fitzsimmons was born is the one fact in this section that the record cannot agree on, and both sides print. The City of Mishawaka's marker text and Peter De Kever, the Mishawaka historian who wrote his biography, place the birth on a farm in Tipton County in 1901, the family moving to Mishawaka about 1905. The Society for American Baseball Research's biography places the birth in Mishawaka itself, on 26 July 1901; the standard references give Mishawaka on 28 July 1901. The dates differ by two days and the counties by forty miles; what no source disputes is the formation — raised in Mishawaka from early childhood, schooled at Mishawaka High School, signed out of its sandlots — and his tie is printed at that strength, raised and formed here, with the birthplace standing as the two records give it.

Sources:

1. City of Mishawaka, the historic-marker record — Fitzsimmons born on a farm in Tipton County in 1901, the family in Mishawaka about 1905; the Indiana Baseball Hall of Fame induction of 1992; the Mishawaka High School Athletic Hall of Fame induction of 2019.
2. Society for American Baseball Research, the Fitzsimmons biography (Gregory H. Wolf) — born 26 July 1901 in Mishawaka; Baseball-Reference Bullpen and the standard references — born 28 July 1901 in Mishawaka, and the 1992 induction.
3. Peter J. De Kever, Freddie Fitzsimmons: A Baseball Life — the Tipton County birthplace, and the closing judgement on Cooperstown.