With a runner on third, 1922 Red Lutz is definitely your man.
With eleven 6s on his single column card and practically nothing else. Lutz is all or nothing. That said, he doesn’t have a thirteen on his card an he has a fair amount of fly ball outs for some nice sac flies should situation call for it.
Lutz doesn’t has any 14s but he does have the requisite 36 and 38 that most catchers get.
Interestingly, not only was 1922 Lutz’ only year in the majors but he only batted once as well. Looking at his card, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what happened. Yes, a double.
| Split | G | GS | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922 Totals | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 |
I wasn’t familiar with Lutz before I wrote this up but given that he was from Cincinnati, Ohio and his nickname was “Red”, I had a hunch. Yep, he played for the Cincinnati Reds. Then again, it could be that he was a ginger.
Thanks to Greg Giordano of the APBA Football Club for finding this via the Ed Zack Handbook!
Around 1980 I was in an APBA tournament at at Toronto hotel (it was big news, even got into the Toronto Star.) I don’t remember a lot about that day other than that there were no restrictions on player use and I got killed by Red Lutz eventhough I had the powerful 27 Yankees. So his name has remained a four letter word (pun intended) for me.
oh, that’s nasty!
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