Leron Lee

I love that Leron Lee is one of those names that means way more in Japan than back home, and that quietly delights me. He was a solid MLB outfielder bouncing around the Cardinals, Dodgers, Indians and Padres, but it was crossing the Pacific to the Lotte Orions where he became a genuine legend, racking up four All-Star nods and four Best Nine awards over eleven seasons. To me he's the perfect example of a player who found his true home far from where everyone expected, and his ridiculous lifetime batting average in NPB still gets brought up in awe. The fact that his nephew Derrek Lee later starred in the majors only makes the whole Lee baseball story feel that much cooler. Quietly iconic, underrated everywhere except where it counted.

Name (English)

Leron Lee

Name (Japanese)

レロン・リー

Reading

れろん・りー

Born

March 4, 1948 (age 78)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rat

Origin

Bakersfield, California, United States

Height

183 cm

Occupation

baseball player

High school

Grant Union High School

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC

Tags

• California
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.