Jim Lyttle
American baseball player
James Lawrence Lyttle Jr. (born May 20, 1946) is an American former professional baseball player from Logan, Indiana. He played as an outfielder for the New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox, Montreal Expos, and Los Angeles Dodgers of the Major League Baseball (MLB). He also played seven seasons of baseball in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) with the Hiroshima Toyo Carp and Nankai Hawks.
Early life
Jim Lyttle was a multi-sport athlete who achieved fame in Southeastern Indiana. A four-sport athlete at North Dearborn High School, he recorded a basketball school-record 1,072 career points, leading the Vikings to a 57-13 record and the first three sectional championships in school history in his three seasons. He was named all-conference, all-sectional and all-regional each three times, while also achieving widespread acclaim in baseball. He chose a scholarship to Florida State University because it represented the chance to play basketball and baseball (he averaged 14.1 points as a freshman and 12.4 points as a sophomore – scoring in double figures in 20 of 26 games) while also earning 1st team All-American baseball honors and being selected by the New York Yankees’ with the 10th pick in the 1st round of the 1966 amateur draft.
Professional career
Major League Baseball career
Lyttle graduated from Florida State University, and was drafted in the first round of the 1966 amateur draft by the New York Yankees. He made his major league debut with the Yankees in 1969, and recorded a .310 batting average in 87 games in 1970.
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