John Burnette Hollingsworth (December 26, 1895 in

Jacksboro, Tennessee Jacksboro is a town in Campbell County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 2,020 at the 2010 census, and 2,306 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Campbell County. History Jacksboro was founded in 1806 as a permanent county se ...

– January 4, 1990 in

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) was a

pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...

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. He pitched from 1922 to 1928. Hollingsworth warming up

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