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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Fred Luderus: From the World Series to Three Lakes
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:03:38
	Publish Date:		2021-06-16 10:29:23
	Description:		Summer is baseball season, and many Northwoods residents enjoy playing the game in local leagues or watching professionals on television. A few of those professional players have found the Northwoods equally appealing, and more than one has called the town of Three Lakes home. One of them was first baseman Fred Luderus. Frederick William Luderus was born in Milwaukee in September 1885. The son of German immigrants, Luderus grew up in Milwaukee’s German American community and as a teenager gained a reputation as a talented athlete. He loved the game of baseball and played first baseman in Milwaukee’s sandlot leagues. While he enjoyed baseball, he had to earn a living and apprenticed in the plumbing trade. From 1905 to 1907, Luderus played minor league baseball in the Northern Copper Country League. During those three years he played for Sault St. Marie, Grand Forks, and Winnipeg, but after each season he was back in Milwaukee working as a plumber. The Northern League folded after 1907.
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