Hugh Luby
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Hugh Max "Hal" Luby (June 13, 1913 – May 4, 1986) was an American
minor league baseball. Born in Blackfoot, Idaho, Luby grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, and briefly attended Creighton University.[1][2]
He threw and batted right-handed, stood 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) tall and weighed 185 lb (84 kg).
Luby the player was a fixture in the
at bats. All but nine of those games played occurred during the wartime 1944 season, when Luby was a member of the Giants. During his long minor league career, however, he batted .296 in 2,824 games, and amassed 3,165 hits. He is a member of the Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame.[3]
In 1949, Luby began his off-field career as a manager in the
farm system of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Named skipper of the unaffiliated Salem Senators of the Class A Western International League for 1951, Luby began a long tenure as a key figure in professional baseball in the Pacific Northwest. He served as manager and general manager of the Senators and Eugene Emeralds of the WIL, president of the Northwest League (the WIL's identity after 1954), and GM of the Emeralds when, as members of the Pacific Coast League, they were the Triple-A affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies. He owned Luby's sporting goods store in Eugene.[4] Hugh Luby died in Eugene, Oregon, at the age of 72; his obituary hailed him as "Eugene's Mr. Baseball".[5]
References
- ^ "Nebraska Minor League Baseball; Hugh Luby". Archived from the original on 2006-11-09. Retrieved 2009-09-03.
- ^ a b "Hugh Luby".
- ^ "The Official Site of Minor League Baseball".
- ^ "Luby's to close". The Register-Guard. February 27, 1986. Retrieved 2011-04-03.
- ^ Rodman, Bob (May 6, 1986). "Luby, Eugene's Mr. Baseball, dies". The Register-Guard. Retrieved 2011-04-03.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors)