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Gene locklear artist Continue Citation: Lockliar, James. The former professional baseball player swings his soul into painting. Fayetteville Observer Friday, July 6, 2001. Abstract: Gene Locklear, who was born in Mount Airy (northwest of Pembroke), was the first Lumbee to play major league baseball. He began his professional baseball career in 1969 when he signed with the Cincinnati Reds as a free agent. In 1973, he was traded to the San Diego Padres and in 1977 to the New York Yankees. After the 1977 season, he left the Yankees and played in Japan. He retired from baseball in 1979. His career highlights include batting titles for minor leagues in 1971 and 1972; Hitting four home runs in one game; and his best season in 1975 (he hit .321 with the Padres and was the pinch-hitter of the National League hit). Lowry has loved art since high school. After retiring from baseball, he used the money he saved to develop an artistic career. Now living in California, he draws sports personalities and themes; many of his works have been commissioned. He works on display at the White House and Baseball Hall of Fame. He was the official artist of the 1998 Super Cup and is now the official artist of the Arena Football League. He drew baseball Hall of Fame player Ted Williams, golfer Phil Mickelson, and weightlifter Harold Major Iron Bear Collins. He also draws Native American themes; his work was often auctioned off at the annual Strike at the Wind!fundraiser. Category Tags: Type of Publication: Other features of the work: Additional information: Gene Locklear (en) Lumbee Baseball Players (en) Lumbee Artists American Baseball Player This biography of a living person needs additional quotes to check. Please help by adding reliable sources. Controversial material about living persons who have no sources or bad sources should be immediately removed, especially if potentially defamatory or harmful. Find sources: Gene Locklear - News Newspaper Book Scientist JSTOR (July 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Gene LocklearOutfielderBorn: (1949-07-19) July 19, 1949 (age 71) Lumberton, North Carolina Battle: Left Throw: Right MLB debutApril 5, 1973, for Cincinnati RedsLast MLB Appearance2, 1977, for New York YankeesMLBBatting average.274Home runs9Runs batted in66 Cincinnati Reds teams (1973) San Diego Padres (1973-76) New York Yankees (1976-77) Nippon-Ham Fighters (1978) Gene Locklear is a former Major League Baseball outfielder born in Lamberton North Carolina. He played all or part of five seasons, from 1973 to 1977, in the major leagues. He also played one season in Nippon Professional Baseball for the Nippon-Ham Fighters in 1978. Locklin was signed as a free agent by the Cincinnati Reds in 1969. He played in their farm system until 1972. He made the Reds' Opening Day to make his major league debut on April 5. In June, he was traded to the San Diego Padres, for which he played until 1976. He was then traded to the New York Yankees, for which he played 13 games in 1976 and one game in 1977. After spending most of the last year with the Syracuse Chiefs minor league baseball team, he signed with the Fighters, where he ended his career. That included hitting four home runs in one AAA game in Columbus, Ohio in 1978. Lockliar is a full-blooded member of the Lumbee people. After a baseball career, he worked as a commercial artist. References - Chass, Murray, New York Times, August 22, 1976 Career Stats sources and information about a player from Baseball-Help, or Baseball-Help (Minors) Extracted from In a wide conversation, Gene Locklier and Richard Muscio discuss the plight of Native Americans, baseball and how the kick has changed, and his art and how it has changed over the years. Gene Lockliar is a full-blooded member of the Lumbee Indian nation. Playing baseball and creating art has been his passion since he was a kid. As a 6-year-old in art class, he knew he wanted to be an artist and continued to paint throughout his baseball career. Known as The Chief, Gene played 10 years in the major leagues for the Cincinnati Reds, San Diego Padres, and New York Yankees. Jin prides himself on helping break down racial barriers by becoming the first member of the Lumbee tribe to play professional sports and is one of only about two dozen Native Americans to play in the majors. After fighting game time and fighting prejudice, he gave up baseball and focused on art. He maintains countless friendships with other major leagues and professional athletes from all over the sports world due to the sports theme of the art he has created. He continues to produce works of art in oils, acrylic and pencil. You can see his excellent works of art in www.genelocklear.com. /audio/2018-07-15-gene-locklear.mp3 This outfielder was the first member of the Lumbee people of Robson County, North Carolina, to play in the majors. Throughout his playing days, Gene Lockliar's skill as an artist has also attracted attention. They are both separate things and you have to have talent. You can't just wish, Locklear said in 2005. One of Gene's paintings hung in the White House during the administration of President Gerald Ford, and his reputation grew steadily over the years. Gene Lockliar - he has no naming, and Jean is missing nothing - was born on July 19, 1949 in Lamberton. This city is a popular night stop on Interstate 95. It's about 20 miles from the state line with South Carolina and kitschy roadside south of the border. Although Lockliar was At a house in Lamberton, he grew up in Pembroke, about 12 miles northwest. In Robson County, nearly 40% of the population of Lumbee, people whose origins have prompted many theories. They are Indians, but the uniqueness and complexity of this identity have made it the subject of numerous books and studies. Another part of Lumbee's story that goes beyond this story is the tribe's quest for full federal recognition. As Jin said in 1971: We never lived on the reservation. We are not supported by the government. We have our own farms. In 1976, he added: Reserved life humiliates you. It limits everything. It's like putting a dog in a cage. Articles about Locklear often called it full-blooded if the term really refers to Lumbees - there is a lot of evidence of three-race origin. One romantic hypothesis states that local Native Americans absorbed the Lost Colony of Roanoke back in Elizabethan times. Another fascinating example is Lumbee's 19th-century hero - and one of Gene's artistic subjects - swamps outlaw Henry Berry Lowry. In his 1872 book about the Lowry gang, the famous war correspondent George Alfred Townsend vividly described the impurity he saw in Lowry and gang member Pope Oxendin. Jin himself said in 1972: Most people think that an Indian should have a big nose, dark skin and long, black hair. This is consistent with the thinking of the historian Lambie Malinda Maynor Lowry, who nevertheless warns against over-emphasis on a mixed background. There are four layers of identity among Lumbee, Lowry argues: First, there is kinship, or who your people are, as the local saying says; secondly, there is a place, or where you stay in terms of church and community; Third, the tribe; and fourth, race. Lumbee also have a peculiar manner of speaking, which serves as an immediate identification mechanism. He stands out when he listens to Gene Loklin. Locklear is a common surname among Lumbee. Indeed, both of Gene's parents , Lonnie Jay and Catherine Ann Lockliar - came from this clan. However, although they were born just a few miles apart, they were not blood-related. Lonnie was a tobacco farmer, and Jean worked with him, plowing fields. (The tobacco farm was a job that hung in the White House.) However, he had twin dreams from a very young age. In 1985, he said, I loved drawing and loved playing ball. If you asked me when I was 6 or 7 what I was going to do, that's what I would tell you. I'd do both. As a kid from a small town, I realized my chances of becoming a ballplayer were probably something like a one in a million. I had the common sense to know that I'd better back off. So I drew. In 1971, Jean recalled, We didn't have an art teacher in I enjoyed working with pencils and paint, so I took a correspondence course. Where I came from, we didn't have a Little League, Lockliar said in 2005. I played with older men in the tribe until I could play in high school. However, despite the lack of formal infrastructure, this sport has long been popular among Lumbees. In 1994, Dwight Lowry - another Pembroke native and another Lumbee major league to date as of 2010 - said: It's just something everyone loves to play. In 1969, the Cincinnati Reds signed Gene as a free agent. He graduated from Pembroke High about a year ago and worked on a farm. I never learned to learn, he said in 1998. I'm not very good at school. The scout was Bill Jamieson, who also signed Dan Drissen of South Carolina for the Reds. Lockliar told the story of his signing in 1972. I batted .500 one year in high school and over .400 in another, but no one was interested in me. I went to the Pittsburgh trial camp, hit two balls from the park out of five that were pitched for me and was the fastest of the 60 boys in camp.