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
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on July 23, 2013
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