Lip Pike

Lip Pike
Outfielder
Born: (1845-05-25)May 25, 1845
New York City, U.S.
Died: October 10, 1893(1893-10-10) (aged 48)
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Batted: Left
Threw: Left
MLB debut
May 9, 1871, for the Troy Haymakers
Last MLB appearance
July 28, 1887, for the New York Metropolitans
MLB statistics
Batting average.322
Home runs21
Runs batted in332
Teams
  National Association of Base Ball Players
  League player
Troy Haymakers (1871)
Baltimore Canaries (1872–1873)
Hartford Dark Blues (1874)
St. Louis Brown Stockings (NA) (1875)
St. Louis Brown Stockings (NL) (1876)
Cincinnati Reds (1877–1878)
Providence Grays (1878)
Worcester Worcesters (1881)
New York Metropolitans (1887)
  League manager
Troy Haymakers (1871)
Hartford Dark Blues (1874)
Cincinnati Reds (1877)
Career highlights and awards
  • 3× NA home run leader (1871–1873)[1]
  • 1× NL home run leader (1877)[1]
  • NA RBI leader (1872)[1]
  • NA doubles leader (1874)[1]

Lipman Emanuel "Lip" Pike (May 25, 1845 – October 10, 1893) the "Iron Batter",[2] was an American star of 19th-century baseball in the United States.[2][3] His brother, Israel Pike, played briefly for the Hartford Dark Blues during the 1877 season.

Pike was one of professional baseball's first great sluggers, leading early professional leagues in home runs four times.[1] Pike possessed "great speed, a powerful, if erratic, throwing arm, and enormous power."[4]

Pike was also the first Jewish baseball star and manager in America.[5][4]

  1. ^ a b c d e "Lip Pike Stats". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
  2. ^ a b Boxerman, Burton A.; Boxerman, Benita W. (December 27, 2006). Jews and Baseball: Entering the American mainstream, 1871–1948. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. ISBN 9780786428281. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
  3. ^ Siegman, Joseph (2000). Jewish sports legends: the International Jewish Hall of Fame. Brassey's. ISBN 9781574882841. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
  4. ^ a b Kerr, Roy (January 10, 2014). Buck Ewing: A Baseball Biography. McFarland. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-7864-9011-0. Retrieved July 4, 2022.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference sabr-bio was invoked but never defined (see the help page).