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Jim Lemon
Lemon in 1959
Outfielder / Manager
Born: (1928-03-23)March 23, 1928
Covington, Virginia, U.S.
Died: May 14, 2006(2006-05-14) (aged 78)
Brandon, Mississippi, U.S.
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
MLB debut
August 20, 1950, for the Cleveland Indians
Last MLB appearance
September 24, 1963, for the Chicago White Sox
MLB statistics
Batting average.262
Home runs164
Runs batted in529
Managerial record65–96
Winning %.404
Teams
As player

As manager

Career highlights and awards

James Robert Lemon (March 23, 1928 – May 14, 2006) was an American right and left fielder, manager and coach in Major League Baseball. A powerful, right-handed hitting and throwing outfielder, Lemon teamed with first baseman Roy Sievers and later with slugger Harmon Killebrew and outfielder Bob Allison to form the most formidable home run-hitting tandem in the 60-year history of the first modern-era Washington Senators franchise.

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Playing career

Born in Covington, Virginia, the 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m), 200 lb (91 kg) Lemon was known as "Bob" before he signed with the Cleveland Indians in 1948. He became known as "Jim Lemon" to avoid confusion with Indians' Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Lemon, but he never won a regular job with Cleveland. Instead, Lemon was a "late-bloomer" who required several trips to the minor leagues before finally winning a regular berth with the 1956 Senators at the age of 28.

A free-swinger who three times led the American League in striking out, Lemon and his teammates benefitted from new Washington owner Calvin Griffith's decision to move the left field fences closer to home plate in the Senators' cavernous ballpark, Griffith Stadium. Lemon smashed 27 homers in 1956, also leading the league in triples, then followed with 26 (1958), 33 (1959) and 38 (1960). He twice compiled over 100 runs batted in and became a favorite of U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower after Eisenhower attended Lemon's 3-home-run performance at Griffith Stadium in 1956.[1][2]

However, the home run exploits of Lemon and his teammates were more than offset by poor pitching, and after multiple second-division finishes in the AL, Griffith moved the Senators to Minneapolis–Saint Paul after the 1960 campaign to become the Minnesota Twins. But Lemon left his stroke behind in Washington, and after only 14 homers in Minnesota in 1961 and an injury-ruined 1962, his career wound down quickly. His last year as a player, 1963, was divided among the Twins, Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago White Sox. All told, he appeared in 1,010 games over all or parts of 12 major league seasons and batted .262 with 164 home runs.

Coach and manager

Lemon remained in the game as a coach for the Twins, serving two different terms (1965–67; 1981–84) in that role, including with the 1965 pennant-winning team. In between, in 1968, he returned to Washington as manager of the expansion Senators, but his popularity as a player did not translate to a successful managerial record. His club finished last in the ten-team American League, winning 65 games and losing 96 (.404)—but it did feature a fearsome, right-handed power-hitter in Frank Howard. Lemon was fired after only one season, replaced by Ted Williams.

As a native son, and to honor his batting achievements with the original Senators, he was elected to the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1988.

Jim Lemon died from cancer at the age of 78 at his Brandon, Mississippi home.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Cool of the Evening: The 1965 Minnesota Twins
  2. ^ "Senators lose to Yanks, But Lemon Steals Show With Three Home Runs". Ottawa Citizen. 1956-09-01. Retrieved July 24, 2011.
  3. ^ Jim Lemon, 78, Outfielder, Is Dead; Earned Visit With Eisenhower
  • The Baseball Encyclopedia, tenth edition. New York: MacMillan USA, 1996.

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