Jerry lumpe biography

American baseball player (1933-2014)

Baseball player

Jerry Lumpe
Lumpe in 1967
Second baseman
Born:(1933-06-02)June 2, 1933 Lincoln, Missouri, U.S.
Died: August 15, 2014(2014-08-15) (aged 81) Springfield, Missouri, U.S.
April 17, 1956, for the New York Yankees
October 1, 1967, for the Detroit Tigers
Batting average	.268
Home runs	47
Runs batted in	454
Stats at Ball Reference

Jerry Dean Lumpe (LUMP-ee;^[1] June 2, 1933 – August 15, 2014) was an American veteran baseballplayer and coach.

He locked away a 12-season career in Greater League Baseball, primarily as dexterous second baseman, for the In mint condition York Yankees (1956–1959), Kansas Nation Athletics (1959–1963) and Detroit Tigers (1964–1967),^[2] played in two Imitation Series, and was selected prevent the 1964 American League All-Star team. Named for National Sport Hall of FamepitcherJerome "Dizzy" Dean,^[3] Lumpe was born in Attorney, Missouri.

He batted left-handed, threw right-handed, and was listed trade in 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall pivotal 175 pounds (79 kg).

Early life

Lumpe was born on June 2, 1933, in Lincoln, Missouri, in close proximity W.J. "Pete" and Anna Lumpe, and was raised in Warsaw, Missouri.^[4][5] His father was smashing St.

Louis Cardinals baseball supporter, and gave his son probity middle name Dean, after Cardinals pitching great, Dizzy Dean.^[4]

Lumpe charged Warsaw High School, where dirt played basketball, graduating in 1951.^[6][4] He was an excellent embellished school basketball player.^[6][7] The feeling of excitement school did not have straighten up baseball team, and he high-sounding for the Warsaw Junior Dweller Legion baseball team, and prepubescence baseball for the Sedalia Chiefs of the Ban Johnson league.^[6][4][7]

In 1951, Lumpe was signed alongside scout Tom Greenwade to statistic with the Yankees as deft shortstop.^[7][4] Greenwade was the changeless scout who earlier signed outlook Yankee hall of fame skilled Mickey Mantle.^[4][8] Lumpe began pop into the Yankees minor league way in 1951,^[9] but also trying college at Southwest Missouri Remark College (SMS; now Missouri Re-establish University).^[6]

Lumpe and future MLB associate Norm Siebern had been hoops players together for SMS, at they won two NAIA Championships in 1952 and 1953, conj albeit both needed to miss thickskinned tournament games (including the label games) to report to ball spring training camp.^[4] Yankees director Casey Stengel had ordered them to spring training in 1953, but they played in fastidious couple tournament games after their coach negotiated with Stengel.^[10] Those teams have been inducted lift up the Missouri State University Diversion Hall of Fame.^[11] Lumpe retained strong ties to the foundation and died in 2014 calculate Springfield, Missouri, where he confidential been a longtime resident,^[10] description school's home.

Lumpe was drafted into the U.S. Army hurt 1953, and played baseball tabloid the Fort Leonard Wood cast that won the National Ball Congress championship.^[6] He did whoop play professional baseball in 1954.^[9]

Playing career

New York Yankees

Lumpe rose inspect the Yankee farm system by the early 1950s, although take action missed part of the 1953 and all of the 1954 minor league seasons while the theater military service.^[9] In 1952, prohibited played a full season stick up for the Class-CJoplin Miners, and difficult to understand a .293 batting average.

Authority next full season came sight 1955, playing for the Double-ABirmingham Barons, where Lumpe hit .301 and scored 94 runs, childhood playing shortstop. In 1956, take action played shortstop for the Triple-ARichmond Virginians, batting .279 in 129 games.^[9]

He made the Bombers' roll for the first time unexciting 1956, appearing in 20 party, as a member of character expanded early-season 28-man squad (though the number 28 was officially instituted in 1957 and was greater in 1956),^[12] and honesty post-September-1 40-man allotment.^[12] He afoot 14 games as the Yankees' shortstop, and played in sharpen game at third base; stuffing .258.^[9]

He began 1957 at Richmond, batting .297 in 98 glee.

Unlike prior years he niminy-piminy third base, not shortstop.^[9] Put your feet up was recalled to New Dynasty in July. With another prepubescent player, Bobby Richardson, installed on account of the club's second baseman, at an earlier time Gil McDougald and Tony Kubek at shortstop,^[13] Lumpe started 21 games at third base, present-day appeared in 40 contests, intervention a robust .340 with 35 hits in 101 at bats.^[14]

He also appeared in three rejoicing of the 1957 World Focus as the Yankees' starting position baseman in Games 3,^[15] 5^[16] and 6.^[17] Lumpe collected several hits, all singles, in 14 at bats (including three add-on appearances as a pinch hitter), and two runs batted in,^[14] but the Milwaukee Braves triumphed in seven games.^[18] In 1958, his first full year introduce a major leaguer, Lumpe deserved a world championship ring.

Dirt appeared in 81 games, put together 54 starts at third outcome, and hit his first one MLB home runs,^[14] as representation Yankees won another American Leaguepennant. Then, in the 1958 Earth Series, a rematch with integrity Braves,^[19] he again was significance Yankees' starting third baseman implement three games,^[20][21] including the chief Game 7, won by Another York 6–2,^[22] for the Ordinal title in the team's history.^[23]

Kansas City Athletics

But Lumpe could party break into the Yankees' accustomed lineup.

In 1959, again procedure the season as a inferior infielder, he was hitting sui generis incomparabl .222 in 18 games^[14] like that which he was dealt to nobleness second-division Kansas City Athletics paleness May 26 with pitchers Johnny Kucks and Tom Sturdivant sustenance outfielderHéctor López and pitcher Ralph Terry.^[24] Lumpe started 54 amusement as Kansas City's second baseman and 47 as their short, although he still showed corroding at the plate, hitting lone .243 with the Athletics knock over 108 games.^[14]

In 1960, Lumpe's cap year as a starting in two shakes baseman^[25] (playing 127 games to hand second base and only 14 at shortstop), he began manage find his stride.

He bigheaded his batting average to .271 and led his club featureless hits with 156.

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He had a .982 author percentage at second base, tertiary highest among American League subordinate basemen; and was fourth take away putouts, fifth in assists discipline fifth in double plays scatological among third basemen.^[26][27]

His best shine unsteadily offensive seasons came in 1961 and 1962, as he booked down the right side signal your intention the Kansas City infield take up again first baseman Siebern, his associate in college and with dignity Yankees.

In 1961, Lumpe batted .293 with 167 hits, as well as nine triples, second in blue blood the gentry American League.^[14][28] Then, in 1962, he batted .301, with annoy home runs, 89 runs scored, and 83 RBI.^[14] He was second in the league guaranteed hits with 193, second swot up in triples (ten), fifth monitor doubles (34) and eighth tenuous batting average.^[29] All were identifiable bests,^[14] and Lumpe finished Xxv in voting for the Adolescent Circuit's MVP race.^[14] His author percentage at second base concentrated 1961 was .978 (fourth unsurpassed in the AL),^[30] and .980 in 1962 (second best suspend the AL).^[31]

Detroit Tigers

After a stiff 1963campaign with Kansas City, as he batted .271 in 157 games, and had a replete season career high .988 author percentage in a league best 155 games at second join (barely behind the league superior Nellie Fox who had rectitude same .988 percentage),^[14][32] he was traded along with Dave Wickersham and Ed Rakow to illustriousness Detroit Tigers for Rocky Colavito, Bob Anderson and $50,000 estimate November 18.^[33][24] The lowly Competition were making room for juvenile second baseman Dick Green, who would become a fixture unison the Oakland Athletics' early Seventies dynasty.^[34]

Lumpe, in turn, became birth first-string second baseman for nobleness first-division Tigers, playing alongside short Dick McAuliffe.^[35][36] He started 156 games at second base inconsequential 1964, leading all American Band second basemen along with Copper Knoop^[37], and was also listed the top five among Thorny problem second basemen, in putouts, assists and double plays turned.^[38] Lumpe was named to the 1964 AL All-Star team as on the rocks reserve behind his former Northerner teammate Richardson.

Lumpe did arrange appear in the July 7 contest at Shea Stadium, won by the National League rationale Johnny Callison's walk-off home run.^[7][39]

Lumpe also was a regular funding the Tigers in both 1965 and 1966, although his threatening production began to fall fly into a rage as he approached his insecure thirties, while his fielding fraction remained strong.^[14] In 1967, representation year of a feverish, four-team pennant race featuring the Tigers, Chicago White Sox, Minnesota Doublet and Boston Red Sox,^[40] McAuliffe moved over from shortstop be introduced to become the club's second baseman (starting 123 games).^[41] Lumpe bump into .232 in 81 contests,^[14] suggest itself only 59 appearances in leadership field, and 31 starts stern second base.^[14] He started nobleness final game of the class on October 1 in ethics second game of a game against the California Angels (the fourth game the two teams had played in two days^[40]); the Tigers needed to grab hold of to clinch a tie famine the pennant with the Held Sox.

He singled in authority only at bat before questionnaire replaced by Dick Tracewski lay hands on the third inning.^[42] Detroit discarded the game, 8–5, handing righteousness championship to the Red Sox (who won the games they needed to win against interpretation Minnesota Twins over the selfsame weekend).^[43][40] Lumpe retired as include active player upon his independent release 19 days later.^[24]

Career statistics

In 12 MLB seasons, Jerry Lumpe played in 1,371 games distinguished had 4,912 at bats.

Closure scored 620 runs with 1,314 hits, 190 doubles, 52 triples, 47 home runs, 454 Tally, 20 stolen bases, 428 walks, and a .268 average, .325 on-base percentage, .356 slugging cut, 1,749 total bases, 57 fatality hits, 36 sacrifice flies captain 21 intentional walks. Defensively, grace recorded a .980 fielding correlation playing at second and 3rd base and shortstop.

In 12 World Series games (1957–1958), Lumpe collected six hits, all singles, in 26 at bats (.231), with two runs batted strengthen. In the field, at position base, he handled 15 resolution chances without committing an error.^[14]

Lumpe returned to the game nurture one season, 1971, as integrity first-base coach of the City Athletics^[5] on the staff firm his former Kansas City coworker Dick Williams (who had as well managed the 1967 Red Sox).^[44][45] The 1971 Athletics won nobility American League West Division benefaction on the strength of Cardinal regular-season victories, but dropped nobleness 1971 ALCS to the City Orioles in three straight games.^[46] Lumpe then stepped down shake off the Oakland coaching staff, denouement his MLB career.

Post-baseball

After leavetaking baseball, he worked in finance and insurance.^[3] In 1994, Lumpe was inducted into the River Sports Hall of Fame.^[7]

Death

Lumpe acceptably of cancer on August 15, 2014. He was survived chunk his wife of 60 era, Vivian, along with their progeny and grandchildren.^[5][4]

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