Red Bluhm

Harvey Fred Bluhm (June 27, 1894 - May 7, 1952) was a Major League Baseball player for the Boston Red Sox. He batted and threw right handed.

Bluhm was a major league player whose career, statistically speaking, was only slightly different than that of Eddie Gaedel or Moonlight Graham. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Bluhm started his professional baseball career in 1911 with Youngstown team. He also played for Duluth (1912) and Toledo (1913), and for the Southern Association's New Orleans in 1914, being signed by the Cleveland Indians, but he was released before the 1915 season began. Bluhm returned to New Orleans for the next three seasons.

On July 3, by|1918, Bluhm debuted with the Boston Red Sox as a pinch-hitter in a game against the Philadelphia Athletics. He went hit-less in his turn at-bat and never appeared in a major league game again. After that, he played in the International League with Jersey City club.

Bluhm died in Flint, Michigan at age 57.

ee also

*Boston Red Sox all-time roster

External links

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/1918.shtml 1918 Boston Red Sox roster]
* [http://www.1918redsox.com/players/bluhm.htm Red Bluhm of the 1918 Red Sox]
* [http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/Pbluhr101.htm Retrosheet]