Lew Post
{{Short description|American baseball player (1875–1944)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}}
{{Infobox baseball biography
|name=Lew Post
|position=Outfielder
|image=
|bats=Unknown
|throws=Unknown
|birth_date={{birth date|1875|4|12}}
|birth_place=Woodland, Michigan
|death_date={{death date and age|1944|8|21|1875|4|12}}
|death_place=Chicago, Illinois
|debutleague = MLB
|debutdate=September 21
|debutyear=1902
|debutteam=Detroit Tigers
|finalleague = MLB
|finaldate=September 22
|finalyear=1902
|finalteam=Detroit Tigers
|statleague = MLB
|stat1label=Batting Average
|stat1value=.083
|stat2label=Home runs
|stat2value=0
|stat3label=RBI
|stat3value=2
|teams=
- Detroit Tigers (1902)
}}
Lewis George Post (April 12, 1875 – August 21, 1944), was an American baseball player. He played three games in Major League Baseball with the 1902 Detroit Tigers, tallying one hit, two RBIs, and two runs scored in three major league games.
Early years
Professional baseball
Post played for the Detroit Tigers in 1902. Post played in three games over a two-day span from September 21 to 22. He had one hit in 12 at-bats for a .083 career batting average. He played in the outfield made one error in five chances. He was the eighth person to appear in right field for the Tigers during the 1902 season.{{cite news|title=Sporting Facts and Fancies|newspaper=Detroit Free Press|author=Joe S. Jackson|date=September 22, 1902|page=8|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99444835/sff/|via=Newspapers.com}} He also played for Flint in the Michigan State League,{{cite news|title=News in Brief|newspaper=The Flint Daily Journal|date=March 10, 1905|page=3|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-flint-journal-lew-post/173174193/|via=Newspapers.com}} and for the Mount Clemens independent professional team.
Later years
Post later worked as an elevator operator at the county hospital in Chicago. He died at his home located at 1632 Belmont Avenue, Chicago, in 1944.{{cite news|title=Lewis G. Post|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=August 23, 1944|page=16|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99442495/lewis-g-post/|via=Newspapers.com}} He was buried at All Saints Cemetery in Des Plaines, Illinois.{{cite book|title=The Baseball Necrology: The Post-Baseball Lives and Deaths of More Than 7,600 Major League Players and Others|author=Bill Lee|publisher=McFarland|year=2015|isbn=9781476609300|page=322}}
In early baseball encyclopedias, he is listed under the name "E. Poste", before further research in the 1980s revealed his full, proper name.
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Category:Detroit Tigers players
Category:Baseball players from Michigan
Category:Major League Baseball right fielders
Category:Flint (minor league baseball) players
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