Mike Lowell

About Mike Lowell

Michael Averett Lowell (born February 24, 1974 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican Major League Baseball third baseman of Cuban descent. He is a right-handed batter. He is currently the third baseman for the Boston Red Sox who previously played with the New York Yankees (1998) and Florida Marlins (1999-2005).

Mike was raised in Miami, Florida. He is the son of Carlos Lowell, a Cuban exile of Irish and German descent who established residency in Puerto Rico from 1962 to 1974, while pitching for the Puerto Rico National Team. He beat the Cuban National Team while representing Puerto Rico in the Pan American games.

In 1992, Mike Lowell graduated from Coral Gables Senior High School in Coral Gables, Florida with a 4.0 GPA and where he was a star player on the baseball team. It is there where he met future wife Bertica Lowell, a member of the school's nationally recognized Gablettes dance team, of which she became coach years later. They have one daughter, Alexis Ileana Lowell, and one son named Anthony.