Edward Burton Hodges was a Major League Baseball

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 third baseman

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. Listed at 5' 11", 170 lb., he batted left-handed

Left-handed

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 and threw right-handed.

Born in Knoxville, Tennessee

Knoxville, Tennessee

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, Bert Hodges started his Minor league

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 career in 1937 with the Elizabethton Betsy Red Sox, playing for them three years before joining the Greenville Buckshots (1940) and the Memphis Chickasaws

Memphis Chicks

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 (1941). He entered the major leagues in 1942 with the Philadelphia Phillies

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, appearing in eight games from April 14 to 26.

Hodges batted two singles

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 in eleven at bat

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s for a .182 average

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, but did not score a run

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 or drive one in.

He returned to Memphis in 1942 and played one more season with them in 1947. In 797 minor league games, he hit .292 with 234 extra bases, including 23 home run

Home run

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Hodges died in Knoxville, Tennessee, at the age of 83.