Mike Lowell

Lowell with the Boston Red Sox

Third baseman

Born: February 24, 1974 (age 42)
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Batted: Right

Threw: Right

MLB debut

September 13, 1998, for the New York Yankees

Last MLB appearance

October 2, 2010, for the Boston Red Sox

MLB statistics

Batting average

.279

Home runs

223

Runs batted in

952

Teams

Career highlights and awards

Michael "Mike" Averett Lowell (born February 24, 1974) is an American former Major League Baseball third baseman. During a 13-year career, Lowell played for the New York Yankees (1998), Florida Marlins (1999–2005), and the Boston Red Sox (2006–2010). With the Red Sox, he was named MVP of the 2007 World Series for batting .400 with 1 HR, 4 RBI, 6 runs scored and a stolen base in a four-game sweep of the Colorado Rockies.

Lowell was born in Puerto Rico to Carl and Beatriz Lowell on February 24, 1974. His parents were born in Cuba, and are of Irish and Spanish ancestry. His family relocated to Miami, Florida when Lowell was four years old. He has always identified himself as a Cuban. He attended elementary school at Epiphany Catholic School in South Miami, Florida. As a high school sophomore at Christopher Columbus High School, he was chosen to play for the varsity baseball team, but did not get playing time, so he transferred to Coral Gables High School for his junior year.

In 1992, Lowell graduated from Coral Gables Senior High School in Coral Gables, Florida, where he had a 4.0 GPA and was a star player on the baseball team. There, he met future wife Bertica, a member of the school's nationally recognized Gablettes dance team, of which she became coach years later. They have one daughter, Alexis Ileana Lowell, and one son named Anthony.

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