Chet Lemon, joyful Tigers World Series hero from L.A., dies

Lemon chitProduction of Los Angeles Freemont Hi During its climax, which became a football player in all stars and the world championship hero during his 16 -year career, he died on Thursday at the age of 70 years after a decades -long fight with blood disorder.

Lemon was a choice in the first round of Oakland Athletics at the age of 17 in 1972, and he starred with Chicago White Sox from 1975-1981 and Detroit Tigers from 1982-1990, where he ended with average.

He was the midfielder in the World Championship for the World Series of 1984 – which achieved an amazing victory to heat the 3 game on San Diego Padres – and he became a favorite for the director of the final hall of celebrities Sparki Anderson.

Anderson said in 1984: “After watching Chester over the past few years, I must undoubtedly say, he is the best central player I have seen in 31 years in the game,” Anderson said in 1984.

“Combining all of this with a young boy’s desire to want to play every day, and it is no wonder that Chester has all these fans sitting in the ovaries at the comfort of his hand.”

the Tigers and White Sox Both of them spread condolences to X.

“The Detroit Tigerers team joins all the baseball in the mourning of the death of Lemon,” the Tigers statement said. “While he was a champion in the world championship and a star in this field, his greatest influence may come out of it. This includes the creation of the Chet Lemon and the allocation of a lot of his career after playing to develop the baseball for youth.

The former mask in the tigers Lance Parish was one of his former colleagues who remembered lemon with pride.

“Chit was the best men and they always had that great smile on his face,” Parish said in a statement. “He was also a fierce competitor at the baseball stadium and his teammate. I loved him as a brother.”

Detroit Limon in Detroit for the first time to overcome the throw after it was founded by San Diego Short Timbelton during the 3rd World Championships at Detroit Tiger Stadium on October 12, 1984.

(Ron Hyvin/AP)

Chester Earl Limon was born in Jackson, Miss, on February 12, 1955. The oldest Children of Ralph and Lemon Lemon were the family and the family moved to Los Angeles when Chit was a child. Frimont Hi was a force in the city that produced a series of senior contestants including Bob Watson, Willie Croford, Bobbie Tulan and George Hendrick below Legendary coach Phil Pot.

Pote became a scout with A while lemon came out of Fremont and made it chosen 22 in the June draft. Lemon collided well in the minor league championships, but he was a poor player in the third and short rule. Ans traded it to White Sox in 1975 while it was in Triple-A.

“I was ready in 1975, but I had no place to play,” I told Lemon White Sox Interactive. “I was a football player and Auckland had young people like Salo and Bert Campanres In those situations. I heard a lot of talk about the difference that cares about me. When I discovered the deal, I thought it was a great step. I was finally getting my chance – and in a big market as well. “

White Sox moved the lemon to the center of the field, and flourished, which broke the starting lineup in 1976, where he set a record in Al 512 PUTOTS in the middle of the field in 1977 and made the American All-Star team in 1978 and 79.

Limon said about his choices in all the stars: “It was a great feeling that he was recognized as one of the best players.” “What was also nice was to get to know other players. You realize that they are all just like you.”

The best lemon season came in 1979 when AL led 44 pairs of spouses and put his highest professional levels in average multiplication (. 318) and RBis (86). He also led the league in a less bright category: hit the stadiums. This was the first of four seasons, as he had more than any other mixture in the league, and he had launched 151 times during his career, 25th classification In the list of all the time.

Why? The painting was crowded.

He said, “I don’t think I realized that I was close to the painting.” “You know, in fact, I didn’t mind being inside. I felt that I could always run the stadiums. If you look at songs, like all of that marital, I think you will find that I went to the left field line mostly.”

The lemon was traded to Detroit after the 1981 season for the late player Steve Kemp. Three years later, lemon all the stars became for the third time and the tigers helped win the world series for the first time since 1968.

Anderson said in 1984: “Chit Limon is the best central player in the game today. It is not the fastest, but it is better to do it because he is working hard more than anyone else,” Anderson said in 1984.

The midfielder in Detroit Chit Lemon is taking a fly from Terry Kennedy to finish the seventh half in the 4th World Championships at Tiger Stadium on October 13, 1984. Detroit beat San Diego 5-2.

(Linnie Ignezi / Associated Press)

Lemon continued to produce tigers until 1991 when they were released at the end of spring training. The lemon noticed that he was taking him longer to recover from injuries and went to the doctor.

I remember to say to myself, “Do I get older? “Because I always took care of myself.” In the 1991 spring training, the tigers discovered that I have a lot of red blood cells in my body. The tigers believed that the numbers they were exposed to were wrong. My stomach always hurt me. I thought I might have had a sore or was just pressure. Doctors were unable to know its cause.

“After about 30 minutes of discovering this, I rushed to intensive care, tied to machines and gave a terrible blood. I only had blood clots but I had a lot of blood and was very thick, like clay.”

Lemon almost died of blood disorder, Polycemia veraSpend three months in the hospital.

He said, “Just an attempt to deliver the bed was painful.” “I was feeding intravenously. I didn’t want to eat, I couldn’t eat. I lost about 60 or 70 lbs and I was about 130 pounds.”

Lemon witnessed Jehovah and refused to receive blood transfusion. The surgery was excluded because he was on blood centers to prevent clots. However, Lemon and Ultimately trained in high school in high school near his home in Abu Pobka, Florida.

In 1993, Chit Lemon Lemon School in Lake Mary, Florida, began the head of the Amateur Sports Federation area near Orlando, and from 2001 to 2008, which was trained at the Yests Secondary School, where he led the team to the country title in 2003.

A star shirt in the former Detroit was presented with a tigers shirt tied by Willie Horton before a match against Chicago White Sox on June 5, 2016, in Detroit. Lemon was honored as part of the Negro Legue at Comrica Park.

(Duan Porleson / Associated Press)

Prince Fielder in the future prince, Zach Grenic, Casey Kochman, and Briki and Gamel Wixed brothers under lemon, were also trained, who also established Lemon Chit FoundationWhich provides support to people affected by strokes and the loss of penny.

“He was a coach, friend and teacher who will be missing in the baseball community in the center of Florida,” Central Florida Rich Wallace coach. Tell Orlando Centinil.

Lemon has suffered from strokes in recent years that I have left unable to walk or speak. civilized region The fortieth anniversary of the title of Tamil Tigers In Detroit in September 2024, he was on a wheelchair but enjoyed the reunion.

“Chit was a teammate and a friend,” said his former teammate and teammate Alan Tramil. “I am very grateful for the time we spent together last summer when the 1984 team was not included in Comerica Park. Today is a sad day for us. It will be missed a lot.”

Lemon survived his wife for more than 30 years, Gigi, and their daughter Priyana. The first wife of the lemon was Valerie Jones, who had four children: Geneva, Chester Junior, David, and MarcusWho played 11 years of baseball in the minor league.

The Associated Press contributed to this article.