Community Corner
This Day in City History: A Baseball and Movie Star Is Born
In his lifetime, Culver City kid Harry Lee Lowrey went from "The Winning Team" on the silver screen to become a major league batter for the Chicago Cubs.
On August 27, 1917, Harry Lee Lowrey was born in Culver City and was almost instantly nicknamed "Peanuts" by his family due to his tiny size--a name that would follow him in a big way through his small career in movies and, most notably, baseball.
While he is most remembered for his baseball career, Lowrey was able to have a small stint as a child actor in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" movies, which were filmed on his grandfather's Culver City ranch in the 1920s—in addition to his role in "The Winning Team" with Ronald Reagan.
From his childhood in Culver City, "Peanuts" went on to play baseball for the minor leagues, then on to the Los Angeles Angels and the Chicago Cubs when he was 23. After his big league career ended, he managed various major league baseball teams until he retired at the age of 64 due to a heart attack. While he died at the age of 67, this Culver City native is still in the hearts of many as a Major League Baseball star.
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Historical information was provided by professional baseball player database BaseballReference.com, and the title Wrigley Field's last World Series: the wartime Chicago Cubs and the pennant of 1945.
