Lew Post

American baseball player
Baseball player
Lew Post
Outfielder
Born: (1875-04-12)April 12, 1875
Woodland, Michigan
Died: August 21, 1944(1944-08-21) (aged 69)
Chicago, Illinois
Batted: Unknown
Threw: Unknown
MLB debut
September 21, 1902, for the Detroit Tigers
Last MLB appearance
September 22, 1902, for the Detroit Tigers
MLB statistics
Batting Average.083
Home runs0
RBI2
Teams
  • Detroit Tigers (1902)

Lewis George Post (April 12, 1875 – August 21, 1944), was a Major League Baseball player.

Post was born in 1875 in Woodland, Michigan.[1]

Post played for the Detroit Tigers in 1902. Post played in three games over a two-day span from September 21 to 22. He had one hit in 12 at-bats for a .083 career batting average. He played in the outfield made one error in five chances.[1] He was the eighth person to appear in right field for the Tigers during the 1902 season.[2] He also played for Flint in the Michigan State League.[1]

Post later worked as an elevator operator at the county hospital in Chicago. He died at his home in Chicago in 1944.[3]

In early baseball encyclopedias, he is listed under the name "E. Poste", before further research in the 1980s revealed his full, proper name.

External links

  1. ^ a b c "Lew Post". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 8, 2022.
  2. ^ Joe S. Jackson (September 22, 1902). "Sporting Facts and Fancies". Detroit Free Press. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Lewis G. Post". Chicago Tribune. August 23, 1944. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.


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