Sunday, March 4, 2018

Jim Lyttle

Career: Played in the big leagues for parts of eight seasons with four different teams, including the Dodgers in 1976.

Did you now? Was the second foreign born player to be named the Japan Series' MVP, in 1980.

Post Game: Coached college baseball and basketball in Boca Raton, Florida ... was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017.

Sources: baseball-reference.com; Tampa Tribune, 5/8/1966; Cincinnati Enquirer, 10/22/1970; Palm Beach Post, 2/3/1981; Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, 2/10/1998; Indianapolis Star, 12/6/2016; New Castle Courier Times, 12/8/2016.

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