Peanuts Lowrey

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Peanuts Lowrey

Outfielder/Third baseman/Pinch hitter
Born: (1917-08-27)August 27, 1917 Culver City, California
Died: July 2, 1986(1986-07-02) (aged 68) Inglewood, California
Batted: Right	Threw: Right
MLB debut
April 14, 1942 for the Chicago Cubs
Last MLB appearance
August 30, 1955 for the Philadelphia Phillies
Career statistics
Batting average	.273
Home runs	37
Hits	1,177
Teams
Chicago Cubs (1942–1943; 1945–1949) Cincinnati Reds (1949–1950) St. Louis Cardinals (1950–1954) Philadelphia Phillies (1955)
Career highlights and awards
Member of 1945 NL champion Chicago Cubs Batted .310 in 1945 World Series National League All-Star selection (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 (1942–1943; 1945–1949), Cincinnati Reds (1949–1950), St. Louis Cardinals (1950–1954) and Philadelphia Phillies (1955).

He was born in Culver City, California, and nicknamed as a child by an uncle who, remarking on Lowrey's small size, said, "Why, he's no bigger than a peanut."^[1] While Lowrey was growing up in Los Angeles, he worked as a child actor on the Our Gang comedies.^[2]^[3]

Lowrey the ballplayer stood 5 feet 8 ¹⁄₂ inches (1.740 m) tall, weighed 170 pounds (77 kg) and threw and batted right-handed. In a 13-season career, Lowrey posted a .273 batting average with 37 home runs and 479 RBI in 1401 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 1952, and the following season made 21 pinch hits to fall one shy of the then-MLB all-time record.^[4]

After a brief managing career in minor league baseball, Lowrey returned to the Major Leagues as a coach with the Phillies (1960–1966), San Francisco Giants (1967–1968), Montreal Expos (1969), Cubs (1970–1971; 1977–1981) and California Angels (1972).

Lowrey died in Inglewood, California, at the age of 68.

References

↑ Spink, C.C. Johnson, pub., The 1967 Official Baseball Register. St. Louis: The Sporting News, 1967
↑ http://www.baseballinwartime.com/player_biographies/lowrey_peanuts.htm
↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0523224/bio
↑ The Associated Press, October 12, 1954

External links

Baseball Library

Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference
Peanuts Lowrey at Find a Grave
Retrosheet

Preceded by None	Montreal Expos Third-Base Coach 1969	Succeeded by Dick Williams

Persondata
Name	Lowrey, Peanuts
Alternative names
Short description	American baseball player
Date of birth	August 27, 1917
Place of birth	Culver City, California
Date of death	July 2, 1986
Place of death	Inglewood, California

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