Lew Watts

Baseball player and coach
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroBaseball player and coach
wasAthlete Baseball player
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
Birth7 March 1922
Death25 June 2003 (aged 81 years)
The details

Biography

Llewellyn 'Lew' Watts III was a baseball player and coach in the United States. He played professionally as a pitcher for the St. Louis Browns and wrote a book titled The Fine Art of Baseball that was published in 1964.

Watts completed two seasons of play in the minor leagues before pitching for the Browns. He later became a baseball coach, and teacher. He was coach and mentor to Major League players Erik Hanson and Brian Meyer.

Before playing baseball professionally, Watts served aboard the USS Rich (DE-695) during World War II for the United States Navy.

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