Joseph Peter "Smokey" Lotz (January 2, 1891 – January 1, 1971) was a

pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...

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. He played for the

St. Louis Cardinals The St. Louis Cardinals are an American professional baseball team based in St. Louis. The Cardinals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central division. Since the 2006 season, the Cardinals hav ...

in 1916."Joe Lotz Statistics and History"
''baseball-reference.com''. Retrieved 2011-02-02. He attended

Creighton University Creighton University is a private Jesuit research university in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1878, the university is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. In 2015 the university enrolled 8,393 graduate and undergra ...

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1891 births 1971 deaths Major League Baseball pitchers St. Louis Cardinals players Baseball players from Iowa Omaha Rourkes players Kearney Kapitalists players Oshkosh Indians players Seattle Giants players Rochester Hustlers players Sioux City Packers players {{US-baseball-pitcher-1890s-stub