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**Lu Wen-sheng**
Lu Wen-sheng
	Uni-President Lions — No. 70
	Manager / Second Baseman
Bats: Right	Throws: Right
	Professional debut
	CPBL: March 17, 1990 for the Uni-President Lions
	statistics
Games	541
Batting average	0.212
Hits	284
Home runs	1
RBIs	90
Stolen bases	10
Teams
	As player: Uni-President Lions (1990–1998); As coach/manager: Macoto Gida (2003); Macoto Cobras (2004 - 2006); Uni-President Lions (2007 - );

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Lu.

Lu Wen-sheng, (traditional Chinese: 呂文生; simplified Chinese: 吕文生; pinyin: Lǚ Wénshēng; Wade-Giles: Lü3 Wen2 Sheng1; born November 30, 1962 in Kaohsiung County, Taiwan), is a retired Taiwanese professional baseball player and the current manager of Uni-President Lions. He has also represented Chinese Taipei on many occasions before entering professional career, and is sometimes named the best second baseman of his time.

[edit] Baseball career

Lu began his baseball career in elementary school, and has always been playing on the national team since high school. Because of his skills, he was admitted into the Hu-feng baseball team (traditional Chinese: 虎風棒球隊), the baseball team of the air force. With his solid fielding skills, he was a frequent member of the Chinese Taipei national baseball team in the 1980s and won the bronze medal in the 1984 Olympics(as demonstration sport). He join Uni-President Lions in 1989 after being invited by a former coach.

As a founding member of the Lions, Lu was well-liked by his teammates and coaches. He was praised for his stable performance on the field, but had very little achievement else where. When CPBL increased the number of foreign players on each team's roster in 1994, he eventually lost his position and has since became a backup infielder. He retired in 1998 due to age and lack of position on the team.

He took up the fielding coach position in the Lions after retiring, and later left for Macoto Gida, which is now Macoto Cobras, who offered him the same position but more opportunity. He returned to the Lions after the Cobras underwent major organizational restructuring, and first took up outfield fielding coach position, later the manager position when Lo Kuo-chang, the bench coach at the time, declined the offer. Despites the short notice before taking the job, Lu did fairly well by leading the Lions to victory in the 2007 Taiwan Series.

[edit] References

Player information from WikiBaseball (Chinese)