Peanuts Lowrey

Peanuts Lowrey


Play Ball" baseball card - 1943 Series, #037 Harry Lee "Peanuts" Lowrey (August 27, 1917 - July 2, 1986) was a outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago Cubs (1942-1943, 1945-1949 ["start"] ), Cincinnati Reds (1949 ["end"] -1950 ["start"] ), St. Louis Cardinals (1950 ["end"] -1954) and Philadelphia Phillies (1955). Lowrey batted and threw right handed. He was born in Culver City, California, and nicknamed by an uncle as a child, who, remarking on Lowrey's small size, said, "Why, he's no bigger than a peanut." [Spink, C.C. Johnson, pub., "The 1967 Official Baseball Register." St. Louis: The Sporting News, 1967]

In a 13-season career, Lowrey posted a .273 batting average with 37 home runs and 479 RBI in 1401 games played.

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 in Inglewood, California, at the age of 68.

External links

* [http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/L/Lowrey_Peanuts.stm Baseball Library]
* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/l/lowrepe01.shtml Baseball Reference]
* [http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/Plowrp101.htm Retrosheet]


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