He played major league baseball as an infielder for seven seasons with a .242 lifetime batting average.  He was never an all-star, never played on a championship team but no one could ever dispute his well-earned nickname, Lucky.

Jack dodged a number of bullets in his lifetime --both literally and figuratively. He fought at Normandy on "D-Day" and in the Battle of the Bulge. He never got a nick but four times, FOUR TIMES, a soldier right next to him was killed!  LUCKY!

When Lohrke was being shipped home from the War in 1945, he was bumped, at the last minute, from a transport flight.  That plane crashed killing everyone on board. LUCKY!

The following year he resumed his baseball career and was traveling with the Class B Spokane minor league team on a bus trip across the state of Washington. During a stop to eat he found out that he had been called up to Triple A. He left the team bus and hitchhiked back to Spokane.  Just a few hours later the Indians' bus went off the road and crashed down in a canyon, killing nine of his teammates.

He was called LUCKY from that time on.

Jack "Lucky" Lohrke dies recently at age 85. He lived a good, long and LUCKY life.