Lew Simmons

Lew Simmons
Lew Simmons, a 19th century musician who played minstrel music was a baseball manager for the Athletic baseball team of Philadelphia.[1]
Manager
Born: August 27, 1838
New Castle, Pennsylvania
Died: (1911-09-02)September 2, 1911
Reading, Pennsylvania
Batted: Unknown
Threw: Unknown
August 26, 
MLB statistics
Games98
Win–loss record41 – 55
Winning %.427
Teams

Lewis Simmons (1838–1911) was an American Major League Baseball manager for the 1886 Philadelphia Athletics of the American Association. He was also a minstrel who performed in vaudeville, playing on the banjo.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b "AUTO KILLS LEW SIMMONS. Old-Time Minstrel, Still on the Stage, Crushed by Heavy Truck". New York Times. 3 September 1811.
  2. ^ Gura, Philip F. (1999). America's instrument: the banjo in the nineteenth-century. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. p. 138.