Clearly not Hornsby. Looks nothing like him, and since there appear to be 48 stars on the flags, that dates them at 1912 or later. Hornsby was in the big leagues by 1915, making the kid in your photo far too young, IMO, and he spent his youth in Texas, not Ohio.
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