Charles Jacob "Jake" Hewitt (June 6, 1870 – May 15, 1959) was a

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. He was the first left-handed pitcher for the

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in 1895."Jake Hewitt Statistics and History"
''baseball-reference.com''. Retrieved 2010-12-26. Hewitt played two seasons of

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(1894–1895) for the West Virginia Mountaineers.

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