Lewis George Post (April 12, 1875 – August 21, 1944), was a Major League Baseball player.
Post was born in 1875 in Woodland, Michigan.[1]
Post played for the Detroit Tigers in 1902. Post played in three games over a two-day span from September 21 to 22. He had one hit in 12 at-bats for a .083 career batting average. He played in the outfield made one error in five chances.[1] He was the eighth person to appear in right field for the Tigers during the 1902 season.[2] He also played for Flint in the Michigan State League.[1]
Post later worked as an elevator operator at the county hospital in Chicago. He died at his home in Chicago in 1944.[3]
In early baseball encyclopedias, he is listed under the name "E. Poste", before further research in the 1980s revealed his full, proper name.
External links
- ^ a b c "Lew Post". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved April 8, 2022.
- ^ Joe S. Jackson (September 22, 1902). "Sporting Facts and Fancies". Detroit Free Press. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Lewis G. Post". Chicago Tribune. August 23, 1944. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
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