Lip Pike
Major League Baseball player, manager
Died when: 48 years 138 days (580 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Lipman Emanuel "Lip" Pike (May 25, 1845 – October 10, 1893) the "Iron Batter", was an American who was one of the stars of 19th-century baseball in the United States.
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 professional leagues in home runs four times.
Pike possessed "great speed, a powerful, if erratic, throwing arm, and enormous power." Pike was also the first Jewish baseball star and manager in America.
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