Lu Wen-sheng | |||
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Uni-President Lions – No. 70 | |||
Manager, second baseman | |||
Born: November 30, 1962 (age 54) Kaohsiung County, Taiwan |
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CPBL debut | |||
March 17, 1990, for the Uni-President Lions | |||
Career statistics | |||
Games | 541 | ||
Batting average | 0.212 | ||
Hits | 284 | ||
Home runs | 1 | ||
RBIs | 90 | ||
Stolen bases | 10 | ||
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Lu Wen-sheng (traditional Chinese: 呂文生; simplified Chinese: 吕文生; pinyin: Lǚ Wénshēng; Wade–Giles: Lü3 Wen2 Sheng1; born November 30, 1962, in Kaohsiung County (now part of Kaohsiung City), Taiwan) is a retired Taiwanese professional baseball player and the current manager of Uni-President Lions. He has also represented Chinese Taipei on many occasions before entering his professional career, and is sometimes named the best second baseman of his time.
Lu began his baseball career in elementary school, and has been playing on the national team since high school. Because of his skills, he was admitted into the Hu-feng baseball team (Chinese: 虎風棒球隊), the baseball team of the Taiwan Air Force. With his solid fielding skills, he was a frequent member of the Chinese Taipei national baseball team in the 1980s and won the bronze medal in the 1984 Olympics(as demonstration sport). He join Uni-President Lions in 1989 after being invited by a former coach.
As a founding member of the Lions, Lu was well liked by his teammates and coaches. He was praised for his stable performance on the field, but had very little achievement elsewhere. When CPBL increased the number of foreign players on each team's roster in 1994, he eventually lost his position and became a backup infielder. He retired in 1998 due to age and lack of position on the team.