Peanuts Lowrey
American baseball player (1917–1986)
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::summary American baseball player (1917–1986) ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox baseball biography"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Peanuts Lowrey |
| position | Outfielder |
| image | Peanuts Lowrey.png |
| caption | Lowrey with the Chicago Cubs in 1948 |
| bats | Right |
| throws | Right |
| birth_date | |
| birth_place | Culver City, California, U.S. |
| death_date | |
| death_place | Inglewood, California, U.S. |
| debutleague | MLB |
| debutdate | April 14 |
| debutyear | 1942 |
| debutteam | Chicago Cubs |
| finalleague | MLB |
| finaldate | August 30 |
| finalyear | 1955 |
| finalteam | Philadelphia Phillies |
| statleague | MLB |
| stat1label | Batting average |
| stat1value | .273 |
| stat2label | Home runs |
| stat2value | 37 |
| stat3label | Runs batted in |
| stat3value | 479 |
| :: |
|name=Peanuts Lowrey |position=Outfielder |image=Peanuts Lowrey.png |caption=Lowrey with the Chicago Cubs in 1948 |bats=Right |throws=Right |birth_date= |birth_place=Culver City, California, U.S. |death_date= |death_place=Inglewood, California, U.S. |debutleague = MLB |debutdate=April 14 |debutyear=1942 |debutteam=Chicago Cubs |finalleague = MLB |finaldate=August 30 |finalyear=1955 |finalteam=Philadelphia Phillies |statleague = MLB |stat1label=Batting average |stat1value=.273 |stat2label=Home runs |stat2value=37 |stat3label=Runs batted in |stat3value=479 |teams=
- Chicago Cubs (–, –)
- Cincinnati Reds (–)
- St. Louis Cardinals (–)
- Philadelphia Phillies () As coach
- Philadelphia Phillies (–)
- San Francisco Giants (–)
- Montreal Expos ()
- Chicago Cubs (–)
- California Angels ()
- Chicago Cubs (–) | highlights =
- All-Star (1946) Harry Lee "Peanuts" Lowrey (August 27, 1917 – July 2, 1986) was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago Cubs (1942–43; 1945–49), Cincinnati Reds (1949–50), St. Louis Cardinals (1950–54) and Philadelphia Phillies (1955).
Lowrey was born in Culver City, California and attended Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles. He was nicknamed as a child by an uncle who, remarking on Lowrey's small size, said, "Why, he's no bigger than a peanut." While Lowrey was growing up in Greater Los Angeles, he worked as a child actor on the Our Gang comedies. As a 35-year-old, he was credited for his screen role as a ballplayer, nicknamed "Peanuts," in The Winning Team, a 1952 biography of Grover Cleveland Alexander that starred Ronald Reagan in the title role.
Lowrey the ballplayer stood 5 feet, inches (1.74 m) tall, weighed 170 lb and threw and batted right-handed. In a 13-season career, Lowrey posted a .273 batting average with 1,177 hits, 37 home runs and 479 RBI in 1,401 games played. In his late career, he became known as one of the top pinch hitters in the Major Leagues. He set an MLB record with seven consecutive pinch hits in , and the following season made 21 pinch hits to fall one shy of the then-MLB all-time record.
He missed the season while serving in the United States Army with a military police unit. Lowrey was discharged after six months and rejoined the Cubs in 1945.
Lowrey was the starting left fielder for the Cubs in all seven games of the 1945 World Series, batting .310 (nine for 29) with a double, and four runs scored; in Game 7, he was the last Cub to score a run in a World Series until Kris Bryant did so in Game 2 of the 2016 Fall Classic.
After a brief managing career in minor league baseball, Lowrey returned to the Major Leagues as a coach with the Phillies (1960–66), San Francisco Giants (1967–68), Montreal Expos (1969), Cubs (1970–71; 1977–81) and California Angels (1972).
Lowrey died on July 2, 1986 in Inglewood, California, at the age of 68 and is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City.
References
References
- Spink, C.C. Johnson, pub., ''The 1967 Official Baseball Register.'' St. Louis: The Sporting News, 1967
- The Associated Press, October 12, 1954
- "Peanuts Lowrey".
- (December 9, 2016). "Game 2 scorecard for 2016 World Series".
- "Peanuts Lowrey".
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