Luke Easter
1946–1954 · bats L / throws R · ASE, CCR, Cleveland Guardians, Homestead Grays
598G
.276AVG
.356OBP
.480SLG
More career statistics
577H
104HR
413RBI
5SB
3Rare feats
Career summary: MLB’s official regular-season totals. Season lines, splits and historical game logs below are reconstructed from the covered Retrosheet records and can differ in coverage or scorer revisions. Compare sources and coverage.
Why official totals and the game-record sums differ
The sources can disagree on historical scorer decisions, appearances, and which games belong to a major-league record. The career summary uses the official total; the source game rows retain their recorded values.
| Statistic | MLB official | Recorded game sum |
|---|---|---|
| Batting · Games | 598 | 583 |
| Batting · At bats | 2,092 | 2,038 |
| Batting · Caught stealing | 8 | 11 |
| Batting · Doubles | 74 | 70 |
| Batting · Hits | 577 | 574 |
| Batting · Hit by pitch | 33 | 29 |
| Batting · Home runs | 104 | 108 |
| Batting · Strikeouts | 293 | 296 |
| Batting · Plate appearances | 2,356 | 2,298 |
| Batting · Runs | 325 | 320 |
| Batting · RBI | 413 | 398 |
| Batting · Stolen bases | 5 | 4 |
| Batting · Triples | 21 | 19 |
| Batting · Walks | 226 | 227 |
Career batting
| G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | K | SB | CS | HBP | SF | TB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 598 | 2,356 | 2,092 | 325 | 577 | 74 | 21 | 104 | 413 | 226 | 293 | 5 | 8 | 33 | 0 | 1,005 | .276 | .356 | .480 | .836 |
Streaks
16longest hitting streak · 1952-08-29 to 1952-09-13
25longest on-base streak
The three rarest things in this career
| Rarity | What | Date | Rate | Game |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 74 | Two Homers, Three Strikeouts | 1952-08-24 | 1 in 2,570 games | box score ↗ |
| 66 | Three Hits, Three Strikeouts | 1952-08-24 | 1 in 1,070 games | box score ↗ |
| 48 | 12 total bases | 1951-09-29 | 1 in 4,532 player-games | box score ↗ |
Splits
Regular season only.
Home and away
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 280 | 1081 | 265 | 65 | 207 | 110 | 128 | .277 | .347 | .521 |
| Away | 303 | 1217 | 309 | 43 | 191 | 117 | 168 | .286 | .350 | .470 |
By month
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | 37 | 132 | 31 | 3 | 17 | 14 | 17 | .267 | .341 | .397 |
| May | 78 | 319 | 67 | 10 | 41 | 45 | 37 | .250 | .351 | .433 |
| June | 115 | 447 | 125 | 30 | 92 | 45 | 41 | .313 | .380 | .584 |
| July | 122 | 512 | 126 | 25 | 90 | 58 | 61 | .285 | .359 | .514 |
| August | 128 | 482 | 110 | 19 | 84 | 35 | 71 | .249 | .301 | .415 |
| September | 102 | 405 | 114 | 21 | 74 | 30 | 69 | .307 | .356 | .539 |
| October | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 |
Most-faced opponents
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| detroit-tigers | 81 | 327 | 79 | 18 | 55 | 24 | 61 | .264 | .315 | .485 |
| boston-red-sox | 73 | 284 | 66 | 16 | 55 | 24 | 46 | .263 | .317 | .494 |
| chicago-white-sox | 71 | 280 | 61 | 6 | 36 | 20 | 46 | .237 | .289 | .346 |
| washington-senators-1901-60 | 70 | 254 | 58 | 15 | 55 | 28 | 30 | .258 | .339 | .520 |
| st-louis-browns | 66 | 268 | 73 | 13 | 51 | 25 | 33 | .309 | .366 | .525 |
| new-york-yankees | 65 | 249 | 63 | 14 | 41 | 24 | 46 | .285 | .349 | .516 |
| philadelphia-athletics | 64 | 268 | 72 | 11 | 47 | 29 | 30 | .306 | .377 | .494 |
| newark-eagles | 25 | 104 | 29 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 0 | .322 | .413 | .578 |
Season by season
| Year | Team | G | AB | H | HR | RBI | SB | AVG | IP | K |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 |  Homestead Grays | 49 | 176 | 51 | 4 | 21 | 2 | .290 | – | – |
| 1948 | Homestead Grays | 43 | 137 | 51 | 11 | 37 | 1 | .372 | – | – |
| 1949 |  Cleveland Guardians | 21 | 45 | 10 | – | 2 | – | .222 | – | – |
| 1950 | Cleveland Guardians | 141 | 540 | 151 | 28 | 107 | – | .280 | – | – |
| 1951 | Cleveland Guardians | 128 | 486 | 131 | 27 | 103 | – | .270 | – | – |
| 1952 | Cleveland Guardians | 127 | 437 | 115 | 31 | 97 | 1 | .263 | – | – |
| 1953 | Cleveland Guardians | 68 | 211 | 64 | 7 | 31 | – | .303 | – | – |
| 1954 | Cleveland Guardians | 6 | 6 | 1 | – | – | – | .167 | – | – |