Lute Boone

{{Short description|American baseball player (1890–1982)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Lute Boone

|image=Lute Boone portrait.jpg

|position=Infielder

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1890|5|6}}

|birth_place=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1982|7|29|1890|5|6}}

|death_place=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=September 9

|debutyear=1913

|debutteam=New York Yankees

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=September 2

|finalyear=1918

|finalteam=Pittsburgh Pirates

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.209

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=6

|stat3label=Runs batted in

|stat3value=76

|teams=

• New York Yankees ({{baseball year|1913}}–{{baseball year|1916}})
• Pittsburgh Pirates ({{baseball year|1918}})

}}

Lutellus Joseph Boone (May 6, 1890 – July 29, 1982) was an American professional baseball infielder.

File:Lute Boone.jpg

He played in Major League Baseball from 1913 to 1918 for the New York Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates. He worked after his baseball career ended as a pattern maker for the Mesta Machine Company in Homestead, Pennsylvania a suburb of Pittsburgh. From 1960 to 1962, Boone was the president of the Pittsburgh Professional Baseball Association.