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Lu Blue

Luzerne Atwell Blue

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Both, Throws: Left
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: March 5, 1897 in Washington, DC
High School: Hall Military School (Blairly, MD) (All Transactions)
Debut: April 14, 1921
Teams (by GP): Tigers/Browns/WhiteSox/Dodgers 1921-1933

Final Game: April 25, 1933
Died: July 28, 1958 in Alexandria, VA
Buried: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
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Standard Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1921 DET AL 24 1B 152 152 151 1579 1478 85 16 85 .990 10.28 .991 10.63
1922 DET AL 25 1B 144 144 139 1616 1506 95 15 106 .991 11.12 .991 10.80 MVP-10
1923 DET AL 26 1B 129 129 127 1452 1347 93 12 74 .992 11.16 .990 10.59
1924 DET AL 27 1B 108 106 101 1201 1099 85 17 72 .986 10.96 .989 10.49 MVP-19
1925 DET AL 28 1B 148 148 143 1600 1480 101 19 115 .988 10.68 .988 10.46 MVP-12
1926 DET AL 29 1B 109 109 108 1229 1153 57 19 95 .985 11.10 .990 10.77
1926 DET AL 29 CF 1 0 0 6 3 1 2 0 .667 4.00 .968 2.70
1926 DET AL 29 OF 1 0 0 6 3 1 2 0 .667 4.00 .967 2.30
1927 DET AL 30 1B 104 101 98 1126 1040 68 18 99 .984 10.65 .988 10.71
1928 SLB AL 31 1B 154 154 153 1596 1472 107 17 121 .989 10.25 .990 10.42
1929 SLB AL 32 1B 151 151 149 1589 1491 88 10 127 .994 10.46 .993 10.22
1930 SLB AL 33 1B 111 111 111 1194 1110 68 16 91 .987 10.61 .989 10.00
1931 CHW AL 34 1B 155 154 149 1549 1452 81 16 105 .990 9.89 .991 10.03 MVP-17
1932 CHW AL 35 1B 105 100 99 1118 1014 88 16 106 .986 10.50 .989 10.12
1933 BRO NL 36 1B 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 2.00 .990 10.40
13 Seasons 1B 1571 1559 1528 16851 15644 1016 191 1196 .989 10.60 .990 10.43
1 Season OF 1 0 0 6 3 1 2 0 .667 4.00 .967 2.30
1 Season CF 1 0 0 6 3 1 2 0 .667 4.00 .968 2.70
13 Seasons TOT 1572 1559 1528 16857 15647 1017 193 1196 .989 10.60 .990 10.43
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1948 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1921 DET AL 24 153 152 153 152 0 0 152 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1922 DET AL 25 145 144 145 144 0 0 144 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1923 DET AL 26 129 129 129 129 0 0 129 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1924 DET AL 27 108 106 108 108 0 0 108 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1925 DET AL 28 150 148 150 148 0 0 148 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1926 DET AL 29 128 109 128 110 0 0 109 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 18 0
1927 DET AL 30 112 101 112 103 0 0 103 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 2
1928 SLB AL 31 154 154 154 154 0 0 154 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1929 SLB AL 32 151 151 151 151 0 0 151 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1930 SLB AL 33 117 111 117 111 0 0 111 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1
1931 CHW AL 34 155 154 155 155 0 0 155 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1932 CHW AL 35 112 100 112 105 0 0 105 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
1933 BRO NL 36 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Seasons 1615 1559 1615 1571 0 0 1570 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 41 3
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hall of Fame
1954 BBWAA ( 0.4%)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1922 AL (10, 17%)
1924 AL (19, 5%)
1925 AL (12, 11%)
1931 AL (17, 5%)
0.38 Career Shares (525th)

Putouts† s c a p y
1921 AL  1,478 (4th)
1922 AL  1,506 (3rd)
1923 AL  1,347 (5th)
1925 AL  1,480 (2nd)
1928 AL  1,472 (3rd)
1929 AL  1,491 (1st)
1930 AL  1,110 (5th)
1931 AL  1,452 (1st)
Career  15,647 (38th)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
1921 AL  152 (3rd)
1922 AL  144 (4th)
1923 AL  129 (5th)
1925 AL  148 (3rd)
1928 AL  154 (1st)
1929 AL  151 (4th)
1931 AL  155 (1st)
Career  1,571 (52nd)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1921 AL  1,478 (4th)
1922 AL  1,506 (3rd)
1923 AL  1,347 (5th)
1925 AL  1,480 (2nd)
1928 AL  1,472 (3rd)
1929 AL  1,491 (1st)
1930 AL  1,110 (5th)
1931 AL  1,452 (1st)
Career  15,644 (37th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1922 AL  95 (4th)
1923 AL  93 (2nd)
1925 AL  101 (2nd)
1928 AL  107 (1st)
1929 AL  88 (4th)
1930 AL  68 (5th)
1931 AL  81 (3rd)
1932 AL  88 (2nd)
Career  1,016 (48th)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1921 AL  16 (2nd)
1922 AL  15 (3rd)
1924 AL  17 (3rd)
1925 AL  19 (4th)
1926 AL  19 (3rd)
1927 AL  18 (2nd)
1928 AL  17 (2nd)
1929 AL  10 (3rd)
1930 AL  16 (3rd)
1931 AL  16 (2nd)
1932 AL  16 (3rd)
Career  191 (36th)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1921 AL  10.28 (5th)
1922 AL  11.12 (2nd)
1923 AL  11.16 (1st)
1924 AL  10.96 (2nd)
1925 AL  10.68 (3rd)
1926 AL  11.10 (2nd)
1927 AL  10.65 (3rd)
1928 AL  10.25 (2nd)
1929 AL  10.46 (2nd)
1930 AL  10.61 (1st)
1931 AL  9.89 (5th)
1932 AL  10.50 (3rd)
Career  10.60 (21st)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1921 AL  .990 (5th)
1922 AL  .991 (5th)
1923 AL  .992 (3rd)
1925 AL  .988 (5th)
1928 AL  .989 (4th)
1929 AL  .994 (5th)

                                         

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