John Brown Duffie (October 4, 1945 – April 19, 2018) 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 was the starting pitcher in two games for the

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during the 1967 MLB season. Duffie died on April 19, 2018, at the age of 72 at Coffee Regional Medical Center following a brief

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