Lu Blue

Baseball Player

1897 – 1958

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Who was Lu Blue?

Luzerne Atwell "Lu" Blue was a Major League Baseball first baseman. He played in the major leagues from 1921 to 1932 with the Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Browns, and Chicago White Sox. Blue was a switch-hitter who had a career on base percentage of .402 and was one of the best fielding 1st basemen of his era. He interrupted his baseball career for military service in World War I and was later honored with burial at Arlington National Cemetery. In 2001, baseball historian Bill James ranked Blue as the 77th best first baseman of all time.

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Born
Mar 5, 1897
Washington, D.C.
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Lived in
  • Washington, D.C.
Died
Jul 28, 1958
Alexandria
Resting place
Arlington National Cemetery

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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