CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
July 13, 1990 | MARC LACEY, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Lonnie Summers, now 73, doesn't step up to the plate anymore. Or squat behind it and flash signals to the pitcher. But when the former catcher and batting champion picked up a bat in the living room of his Inglewood home the other day, he instinctively held it up as if ready to take a cut. "Wait a minute," he said in the middle of a conversation about the good old days, disappearing into another room.