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Duffy Lewis


 

George Edward "Duffy" Lewis (April 18, 1888 - June 17, 1979), born in San Francisco, California, was a left fielder and left-handed batter who played Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox (1910-17), New York Yankees (1919-20) and Washington Senators (1921).

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  • From 1912 to 1933, there was a 10-foot-high mound that formed an incline in front of the left field wall at Fenway Park. Duffy Lewis, Boston's first star left fielder, played the steep 10-foot embankment so well, it became known as Duffy's Cliff. Gary Shultz, at Baseball Reference