The Hawaii native was traded over to the eventual repeating World Champion Cincinnati Reds for Darrel Chaney, where he’d put in a couple of seasons before coming right back in 1979.
He’d play for another few years in Atlanta before a appearing in 41 games with the Chicago Cubs in 1981 to close out his 15-year career.
His best season in the Big Leagues was easily his 1973 season, when the Braves seemed to have a few guys have career-years.
For Lum, he set career-highs with a .294 batting average, 74 runs scored, 16 home runs and 82 runs batted in on a team that featured three 40-home run guys (Aaron, Evans and Davey Johnson) and four 90+ RBI men.
Amazing that the team could only muster a record of 83-78 with lumber like that!
Nevertheless, Lum finished his career after the 1981 season, collecting a career .247 average with 877 hits and 431 RBIs over 1517 games, with Post Season appearances in the 1969 and 1976 League Championship Series.
Until writing this post I never realized he had that long a Major League career, coming up with the Braves back in 1967 as a 21-year old.
