Lew Fonseca
Today in Tribe History: May 17, 1931
May 17, 2020 | Bob TothJust one full season after winning the 1929 batting title, the Cleveland Indians send Lew Fonseca to the Chicago White Sox for Willie Kamm. Read More
Today in Tribe History: January 21, 1899
January 21, 2020 | Bob TothLew Fonseca is born in Oakland, California. Read More
Today in Tribe History: November 26, 1989
November 26, 2019 | Bob TothLew Fonseca, who spent some of his best Major League seasons in a Cleveland Indians uniform, passes away at the age of 90. Read More
Today in Tribe History: May 17, 1931
May 17, 2019 | Bob TothJust one full season after winning the 1929 batting title, the Cleveland Indians send Lew Fonseca to the Chicago White Sox for Willie Kamm. Read More
Today in Tribe History: January 21, 1899
January 21, 2019 | Bob TothLew Fonseca is born in Oakland, California. Read More
Today in Tribe History: November 26, 1989
November 26, 2018 | Bob TothLew Fonseca, who spent some of his best Major League seasons in a Cleveland Indians uniform, passes away at the age of 90. Read More
Today in Tribe History: May 17, 1931
May 17, 2018 | Bob TothJust one full season after winning the 1929 batting title, the Cleveland Indians send Lew Fonseca to the Chicago White Sox for Willie Kamm. Read More
Today in Tribe History: January 21, 1899
January 21, 2018 | Bob TothLew Fonseca is born in Oakland, California. Read More
Fonseca Won Batting Title for Tribe Before Becoming MLB’s Movie Mogul
January 3, 2018 | Vince Guerrieri | One CommentIn 1929, the season belonged to the Philadelphia Athletics. After two years of second-place finishes, the “Mackmen” – so called because of their manager, Connie Mack – won 104 games, breezing to the pennant and a five-game World Series win over the Chicago Cubs.
But the batting title – and the MVP award – belonged to a player the Indians had claimed off the discard pile just a couple years earlier.
Lew Fonseca batted .369 for an Indians team that finished a distant third, 24 games behind the Athletics and six games behind the second-place Yankees. It was a triumph for a player who had been sent to the minor leagues just three years earlier. Read More
Today in Tribe History: November 26, 1989
November 26, 2017 | Bob TothLew Fonseca, who spent some of his best Major League seasons in a Cleveland Indians uniform, passes away at the age of 90. Read More
Today in Tribe History: May 17, 1931
May 17, 2017 | Bob TothJust one full season after winning the 1929 batting title, the Cleveland Indians send Lew Fonseca to the Chicago White Sox for Willie Kamm. Read More
Today in Tribe History: January 21, 1899
January 21, 2017 | Bob TothLew Fonseca is born in Oakland, California. Read More
