Peanuts Lowrey
Harry Lee "Peanuts" Lowrey (August 27, 1917 – July 2, 1986) was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago Cubs (1942–43; 1945–49), Cincinnati Reds (1949–50), St. Louis Cardinals (1950–54) and Philadelphia Phillies (1955). He was born in Culver City, California and attended Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles. He was nicknamed as a child by an uncle who, remarking on Lowrey's small size, said, "Why, he's no bigger than a peanut." While Lowrey was growing up in Greater Los Angeles, he worked as a child actor on the Our Gang comedies. As a 35-year-old, he was credited for his screen role as a ballplayer, nicknamed "Peanuts," in The Winning Team, a 1952 biography of Grover Cleveland Alexander that starred Ronald Reagan in the title role. Lowrey the ballplayer stood 5 feet,  inches (1.74 m) tall, weighed  and threw and batted right-handed. In a 13-season career, Lowrey posted a .273 batting average with 1,177 hits, 37 home runs and 479 RBI in 1,401 games played. In his late career, he became known as one of the top pinch hitters in the Major Leagues. He set an MLB record with seven consecutive pinch hits in , and the following season made 21 pinch hits to fall one shy of the then-MLB all-time record. He missed the  season while serving in the United States Army with a military police unit. Lowrey was discharged after six months and rejoined the Cubs in 1945. Lowrey was the starting left fielder for the Cubs in all seven games of the 1945 World Series, batting .310 (nine for 29) with a double, and four runs scored; in Game 7, he was the last Cub to score a run in a World Series until Kris Bryant did so in Game 2 of the 2016 Fall Classic. After a brief managing career in minor league baseball, Lowrey returned to the Major Leagues as a coach with the Phillies (1960–66), San Francisco Giants (1967–68), Montreal Expos (1969), Cubs (1970–71; 1977–81) and California Angels (1972). Lowrey died in Inglewood, California, at the age of 68 and is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City. References

External links
Peanuts Lowrey - Baseballbiography.com

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1917 births
1986 deaths
20th-century American male actors
American male child actors
Austin Senators players
Baseball players from Los Angeles
Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players
Burials at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City
California Angels coaches
Chicago Cubs coaches
Chicago Cubs players
Cincinnati Reds players
Los Angeles Angels (minor league) players
Major League Baseball center fielders
Major League Baseball first base coaches
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Major League Baseball left fielders
Major League Baseball third base coaches
Major League Baseball third basemen
Milwaukee Brewers (minor league) players
Moline Plowboys players
Montreal Expos coaches
National League All-Stars
New Orleans Pelicans (baseball) players
Philadelphia Phillies coaches
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Ponca City Angels players
St. Joseph Angels players
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Alexander Hamilton High School (Los Angeles) alumni
Tulsa Oilers (baseball) players
Baseball players from Culver City, California