Edward Francis Hock (March 27, 1899 in

Franklin Furnace, Ohio Franklin Furnace is a census-designated place (CDP) in Scioto County, Ohio, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 1,660 at the 2010 census. Franklin Furnace's post office has the ZIP code of 45629. History Franklin Furnace was ...

, - November 11, 1963 in

Portsmouth, Ohio Portsmouth is a city in and the county seat of Scioto County, Ohio, United States. Located in southern Ohio south of Chillicothe, it lies on the north bank of the Ohio River, across from Kentucky, just east of the mouth of the Scioto River. ...

) was an American

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player who played parts of three seasons for the

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and the

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from 1920 to 1924. He had just one major league hit, but 3,474 in the

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