Meredith Hilliard Hopkins was a Major League Baseball

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 player. He played two seasons in the majors as a reserve infielder, mostly at third base

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. He debuted in for the Philadelphia Phillies

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. He was sent to the minor league St. Paul Saints

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 a month into the season, then was acquired by the Chicago White Sox

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in June. He spent the rest of 1934 and all of with the White Sox, finishing his major league career.

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