Lewis (baseball)

Lewis (First name unknown) was a Major League Baseball player who played in 1890 with the Buffalo Bisons of the Players' League.

Lewis pitched in 3 innings in his only game on July 12, 1890. He gave up 20 earned runs and 13 hits. He also collected 1 hit in 5 at bats.

According to author Norman L. Macht, the Bisons had been having problems with various pitchers and arrived in Brooklyn on the 12th, "when a local boy, whose last name was Lewis but whose first name remains mercifully unknown" told manager Jack Rowe that he was a pitcher and asked for a tryout. Rowe started Lewis and kept him in the game for three innings, before pulling him in favor of right fielder Ed Beecher, who gave up 8 more runs, and the Bisons lost, 28-16. Neither man pitched another game.