Two-way player #1: Al Hollingsworth

 I've always had a fascination with players who were both pitchers and position players in the course of their professional career, so I'm planning on doing a series on them. I have a list of almost 50 of them, which I update regularly, so this series should last a while. 

So, anyway, Al Hollingsworth had an 11-year career as a pitcher, going 70-104, but with bad teams, from 1935 to 1946. But he actually started out in baseball as a first baseman. He did okay, posting averages of .300 and .306 in D ball, but he had no power, so he switched to the mound in 1933, at 25. That year he had a 15-8 record with an ERA of 3.12 for Rock Island in the Mississippi Valley League, and never looked back. His best year in pro ball was probably 1941, in which he won 21 games for Sacramento in the PCL. Though he also pitched well in 1942, as he went 10-6 with a 2.96 ERA for the Browns.