Lewis Simmons (1838–1911) was an American Major League Baseball manager for the 1886 Philadelphia Athletics of the American Association. He was also a minstrel who performed in vaudeville, playing on the banjo.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b "AUTO KILLS LEW SIMMONS. Old-Time Minstrel, Still on the Stage, Crushed by Heavy Truck". New York Times. 3 September 1811.
  2. ^ Gura, Philip F. (1999). America's instrument: the banjo in the nineteenth-century. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. p. 138.
Preceded by Philadelphia Athletics (AA) Managers
1886
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