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Year 177 (CLXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Commodus and Plautius (or, less frequently, year 930 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 177 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events[link]

By place[link]

Roman Empire[link]

• Lucius Aurelius Commodus Caesar (age 15) and Marcus Peducaeus Plautius Quintillus become Roman Consuls.
• Commodus is given the title Augustus and is made co-emperor with the same status as his father Marcus Aurelius.
• Marcus Aurelius begins a systematic persecution of Christians at Rome, the followers take refuge in the catacombs.
• Churches in southern Gaul are destroyed after a crowd accuses the local Christians of practicing cannibalism and incest.
• Forty-seven Christians are martyred in Lyon (Saint Blandina and Pothinus, bishop of Lyon, are among them).
• Second Marcomannic War: Marcus Aurelius and Commodus begin war against the Quadi and the Marcomanni.

Asia[link]

• Chinese troops suffer a crushing defeat against a confederacy of Central Asian tribes led by the Xianbei (see Wu Hu).

Births[link]

• Sun Yu (d. 215)
• Wang Can, Chinese politician, scholar and poet (d. 217)
• Xu Sheng, general of Wu (d. 228)
• Yuan Shang, youngest son of Chinese warlord Yuan Shao (d. 207)

Deaths[link]

• S. Polycarpus, S. Blandina and other martyrs in Lyon

References[link]

Bob Lennon
Outfielder
Born: (1928-09-15)September 15, 1928 Brooklyn, New York
Died: June 14, 2005(2005-06-14) (aged 76) Dix Hills, New York
Batted: Left	Threw: Left
MLB debut
September 9, 1954 for the New York Giants
Last MLB appearance
May 11, 1957 for the Chicago Cubs
Career statistics
Batting average	.165
Home runs	1
Runs batted in	4
Teams
New York Giants (1954; 1956) Chicago Cubs (1957)
Career highlights and awards
Hit 64 home runs for the 1954 Nashville Vols, the season HR record for the Double-A Southern Association

Robert Albert Lennon (September 15, 1928 – June 14, 2005), nicknamed "Archie," was an American professional baseball player. Although Lennon struggled at the Major League level in three different trials during the mid-1950s, he was a prolific home run hitter in minor league baseball, hitting 278 homers in a 16-year career^[1] and setting the single-season home run record for the Double-A Southern Association when he belted 64 for the 1954 Nashville Vols.

An outfielder, Lennon was born in Brooklyn, New York, and signed with his hometown Brooklyn Dodgers in 1945. After three seasons in the low minors, he was acquired by the Dodgers' bitter rivals, the New York Giants, who became the parent club of the Vols in 1952. The Vols played at Sulphur Dell, which was famous for its short right field fence — which was only 262 feet (80 m) from home plate. The park's dimensions favored pull-hitting, left-handed batters like Lennon, and he smashed 24 homers in his first year with Nashville, in 1953. The following season, he adjusted his swing and shattered the Southern Association home run record, clubbing 64 homers in 153 games played, which would stand as the SA's all time record during its 61-year (1901–1961) history. He also knocked home a league-leading 161 runs batted in, won the Triple Crown by posting a .345 batting average, and led the league in runs scored (139) and hits (210).^[2] The breakout season led to Lennon's first MLB trial, as a late-season callup for the pennant-bound 1954 Giants.

Lennon didn't stick with the 1955 Giants, however. He was sent to the Triple-A Minneapolis Millers of the American Association, where he hit 31 home runs and batted .280 with 104 RBI. The following season, he had his longest Major League stint with the 1956 Giants, appearing in 26 games, including 21 in the outfield, but he batted only .182 with one extra base hit, a double. He was then sent to the Chicago Cubs in an off-season trade, where he made his final appearances in MLB during the early weeks of the 1957 season. As a Cub, he hit his only Major League home run, in Brooklyn's Ebbets Field on April 30, 1957.^[3]

He was reacquired by the Dodgers after that season, and played four more seasons of Triple-A baseball, including seasons of 28 and 27 home runs for the Montreal Royals of the International League. Lennon then retired after the 1961 season. As a minor leaguer, he batted .281 in 1,784 games, with 1,699 hits and 1,067 RBI to go with his 278 four-baggers.^[4]

Bob Lennon died at age 76 in Dix Hills, New York.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Corbett, Warren, Bob Lennon, Society for American Baseball Research Biography Project