John "Ike" Lloyd Powers (March 13, 1906 – December 22, 1968) was an American professional

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

player who played two seasons for the

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during and , appearing in twenty games as a pitcher, all but one of those appearances being in relief. He was born in

Hancock, Maryland Hancock is a town in Washington County, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,546 at the 2010 census. The Western Maryland community is notable for being located at the narrowest part of the state. The north-south distance from the Penns ...

and died there at the age of 62.

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Major League Baseball pitchers Baseball players from Maryland Philadelphia Athletics players Martinsburg Blue Sox players People from Hancock, Maryland 1906 births 1968 deaths {{US-baseball-pitcher-1900s-stub