Lute Boone Baseball player

Lutellus Joseph "Lute" Boone (May 6, 1890 to July 29, 1982), was a Major League Baseball infielder who played from 1913 to 1916 with the New York Yankees and in 1918 with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He batted and threw right-handed. Boone had a .209 career batting average. He was born and died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Lute Boone replaced Honus Wagner as shortstop after his retirement from the Pittsburgh Pirates. He worked after his baseball career ended as a pattern maker for the Mesta Machine Company in Homestead, Pennsylvania a suburb of Pittsburgh.From 1960 to 1962, Boone was the president of the Pittsburgh Professional Baseball Association.

Personal facts

Lute Boone
Birth dateMay 06, 1890
Birth place
Pittsburgh
Date of deathJuly 29, 1982
Place of death
Pittsburgh

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Baseball player

Career startSeptember 09, 1913
Career endSeptember 02, 1918
batting sideRight
former teams
Pittsburgh Pirates
New York Yankees
position
Infielder
teams
Pittsburgh Pirates
New York Yankees
throwing sideRight

Lute Boone on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://jamiedanker.com/Obituaries2.htm