page_title: Mike Lum
section_title: Cincinnati Reds
hierarchical_section_title: Mike Lum / Cincinnati Reds
caption_attribution_description: English: Mike Lum in 1981.
context_page_description: Michael Ken-Wai Lum is a former Major League Baseball player and coach who became the first American of Japanese ancestry to play in the major leagues when he debuted with the Atlanta Braves in 1967. He currently serves as the hitting coach with the GCL Pirates.
context_section_description: Playing time was hard to come by for the "spare parts" of the "Big Red Machine." Lum saw far less playing time in Cincinnati than he was used to, as he averaged just 156 plate appearances per season in his three years with the Reds. In 1976, he reached the post-season for the second time in his career. He logged just one at-bat in the 1976 National League Championship Series with the Philadelphia Phillies, flying out in game three to end the seventh inning. He never came to bat in the World Series against the New York Yankees. 
  Following the 1978 season, Lum took part in a tour of Japan with the Cincinnati Reds. Aware that Lum was to become a free agent at the end of the season, the Seibu Lions offered him a three-year deal worth one million dollars. He declined, returning to the Braves, instead.
caption: Lum with the Chicago Cubs in 1981
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