Man Soo Lee

Man Soo Lee (Hulk)

• High School Daegu High School
• School Hanyang University
• KBO Debut 1982
• KBO Final Game 1997
• Born September 9, 1958 in South Korea

Catcher Man Soo Lee played for sixteen seasons with the Samsung Lions in the Korea Baseball Organization. He retired as the KBO's all-time home run king with 252; a record which has since been passed by Jong-Hun Jang and Seung-Yeop Lee among others. In 2006, Lee's KBO home run mark for catchers was broken by Kyung-wan Park. He won the MVP Award of the KBO in 1983 and the next season won the Triple Crown with a .340 average, 23 home runs and 80 RBI. It would be 22 years until another batter won the Triple Crown; Dae-ho Lee accomplished the feat in 2006. He also led the league in homers and RBI in three straight seasons (1983-1985), won 5 Gold Gloves (1983-1987) and played in 12 All-Star Games. He hit the first home run in the history of the KBO as well.

Lee was on the first South Korean national team to win Silver in a Amateur World Series, doing so in 1980.

After retiring he served as hitting coach for the 1998 Kinston Indians and as the first base coach for the Charlotte Knights in 1999. From 2000 to 2006, he was bullpen catcher for the Chicago White Sox, the first Korean to coach in the major leagues. After the '06 season, Lee returned to Korea as a coach for the SK Wyverns.

In May of 2007, Lee staged a publicity stint to give SK their first home sell-out in over two years when he promised to wear boxers (and fake buttocks) on the field. He then auctioned off the boxers for charity. He became SK's skipper in 2011 and led them to the 2011 Korean Series and a loss in the 2012 Korean Series. He was let go following the 2014 season, replacing by Yong-hee Kim. He then went to Laos to develop the game there, becoming Vice President of the Laos Baseball Association. He managed the first Laos national team to play in an Asian Games, in 2018.

KBO Statistics

Year	Team	AVG	G	AB	R	H	HR	TB	RBI	SB	BB	HBP	SO	GIDP
1982	Samsung	0.289	78	270	46	78	13	135	51	6	46	4	27	13
1983	Samsung	0.294	98	357	53	105	27	198	74	0	41	8	51	11
1984	Samsung	0.340	89	300	45	102	23	190	80	3	26	12	37	10
1985	Samsung	0.322	103	357	63	115	22	204	87	7	42	14	37	13
1986	Samsung	0.321	59	212	31	68	16	124	39	1	21	6	20	7
1987	Samsung	0.344	85	299	56	103	18	173	76	6	47	4	23	16
1988	Samsung	0.323	86	285	47	92	18	159	58	6	41	7	22	8
1989	Samsung	0.284	110	359	55	102	20	173	64	4	42	10	48	12
1990	Samsung	0.287	110	359	50	103	26	194	57	3	54	5	37	16
1991	Samsung	0.317	118	378	51	120	17	189	74	6	56	8	27	7
1992	Samsung	0.289	93	305	50	88	22	165	70	7	48	12	41	8
1993	Samsung	0.207	78	193	21	40	5	60	20	0	21	3	23	8
1994	Samsung	0.253	109	233	24	59	12	109	37	0	28	5	42	5
1995	Samsung	0.215	97	158	17	34	5	59	27	1	24	8	20	1
1996	Samsung	0.285	97	193	14	55	6	87	38	2	14	10	25	5
1997	Samsung	0.231	39	52	2	12	2	20	9	0	3	2	10	0
KBO Totals		0.296	1449	4310	625	1276	252	2239	861	52	554	118	490	140