Golden Desmond Holt (March 22, 1902 – June 11, 1991) was an American

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and

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. An

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and

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by trade, the native of

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, logged his playing and managing career exclusively in minor league baseball, but served the

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and

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as a coach on the Major League level, and spent two separate terms scouting for the

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in both

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and

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. The , Holt played 23 years of minor league ball (1924–42; 1944–47), although he was a playing manager for six of those seasons. He came to the Majors as a coach under

Billy Meyer William Adam Meyer (January 14, 1893 – March 31, 1957) was an American baseball player and manager. He holds the dubious distinction of having played with, then managed, two of the worst teams in the history of Major League Baseball. A catch ...

of the Pirates from 1948 to 1950, then scouted and managed in the

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for the Dodgers from 1951 to 1958. He switched to the Cubs' organization as a member of its

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experiment from 1961 to 1965, then returned to the Dodgers as a scout through the early 1980s. During that time, he taught

Charlie Hough Charles Oliver Hough (; born January 5, 1948) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) knuckleball pitcher and coach who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Texas Rangers, Chicago White Sox, and Florida Marlins from 1970 to 1994. Play ...

how to throw a

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.http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/05/06/sports/professional/12_63_055_5_07.txt Goldie Holt died at age 89 in

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Coach's page
on

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