Lew Simmons Explained

Lew Simmons
Position:Manager
Bats:Unknown
Throws:Unknown
Birth Date:August 27, 1838
Birth Place:New Castle, Pennsylvania
Death Place:Reading, Pennsylvania
Debutleague:MLB
Debutdate:August 26
Statleague:MLB
Stat1label:Games
Stat1value:98
Stat2label:Win–loss record
Stat2value:41  - 55
Stat3label:Winning %
Stat3value:.427
Teams:

Lewis Simmons (1838–1911) was an American Major League Baseball manager for the 1886 Philadelphia Athletics of the American Association. He was also a minstrel who performed in vaudeville, playing on the banjo.[1] [2]

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Notes and References

  1. News: AUTO KILLS LEW SIMMONS. Old-Time Minstrel, Still on the Stage, Crushed by Heavy Truck . New York Times . 3 September 1811 .
  2. Book: Gura, Philip F. . America's instrument: the banjo in the nineteenth-century . 1999 . Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press . 138.