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Time to introduce you to the Arizona Canyoneers' Hitting Coach, Craig Lucey. This personnel profile may be a bit longer than average, but if it is, then so be it. With that said, then, and with no further ado, so to speak, let's start trying to get to know him at least a little bit better here, if we can and all, everyone.

Craig Lucey was born on September 17, 1894 in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa to Wallace and the former Ruifrapso Sokumi-born Chushana Kyzehuna as their eldest son and child of three boys and five girls overall, two of them adopted from Ghana as orphans, one boy and one girl, with those orphans being Elolo and Ozigbodi, the boy being Elolo. His younger biological siblings are from oldest to youngest, Barnum, Faleris, Dalpha, Areletta, and Pauline. Elolo and Ozigbodi are twins about a dozen yearse younger than Craig. Craig and his siblings, whether biological or adopted, ultimately grew up as the children of an American diplomat and an artist/novelist/journalist. While growing up, he and his siblings were often outside the United States or Ghana, even after their parents had adopted two Ghanaian orphans into their family, in truth. By the time Craig was a teenager, he was fluent in English, Slaabinese, Spanish, French, Hebrew, and Portuguese, for sure. He was also somewhat fluent in Arabic, Italian, Greek, and Latin. He also could communicate at least a little in several other languages and/or dialects, but still wasn't all that good at doing so in them, for sure.

By the time he was out of high school, he was a good baseball player and an above-average student, at least, in most, though not all, of his classes. Ultimately he ranked third overall in his class, academically-speaking, for various reasons, in his life. And he was satisfied, for the most part, with his academic ranking for his high school class at Mt. Pleasant High School, in truth.

When he finished his time in high school in 1913, he took about six or so years off to serve in the United States Armed Forces as a soldier. Eventually he soon found himself fighting in various battles, mostly in Europe,but also in Africa and the Middle East. When the First World War was over, he soon met his future wife on their ways back to the States just before sailing on a big ocean liner. One thing led to another, in due time, and by the time the ocean liner finally reached American shores near Jacksonville, they'd already decided to get engaged to each other somehow.

Phoebe Knight met him while in the Jerusalem area on pilgrimage for her and on-duty for him, and they soon found themselves taken with each other. By the time they reached Florida in January 1919, they'd begun making plans to marry by the following autumn, even though Phoebe was still an English citizen at that time, having been born in York, England in 1899. They eventually got the required permissions, and they ultimately married in August 1919, in front of about fifty or so friends and relatives and others, at a decent-sized Iowa church in Waterloo, Iowa.

They both spent four years at college attending the University of Iowa before both graduating Summa Cum Laude, much to the pleasure of many. After college, they soon saw Craig playing baseball on independent teams primarily in the Upper Midwest until he was finally unable to continue playing actively enough in his life around 35 years of age, by which time he'd already started moving into the coaching ranks.

Phoebe and Craig began having children in 1930, and now they have five born children and one likely last child on the way. They now live in Flagstaff, but only just barely, at that.

Craig met Justin Geissler one day while Justin was on a business trip to Chicago, right after the Second World War had ended in 1945. One thing soon led to another, including a job offer to be Arizona's hitting coach. When Craig wired Phoebe about the offer, she immediately wired back, "Take the job offer, or don't bother coming home until you do. Simple as that." He took the job offer, and the Lucey family left Iowa as quickly as they could after he did so for Arizona.

Phoebe and Craig now hope to be able to spend the rest of their lives in Arizona, if at all possible, even after they can both no longer actually work to make a living for themselves in them. Especially Phoebe, at least a bit more than Craig, in truth. Their children may not want to, of course, but Phoebe sure does, at least.

Picture(s) and certain other information will be shared later as possible and all, I'm sure. The next personnel profile that's most likely to be shared will be the one for the Arizona Canyoneers' Scouting Director, Danny Clayton. Please watch for it to be posted as soon as possible, of course, folks. Thank you for your time and all, everyone, as always. CD out.