Luke Hughes

Luke Trevor Hughes (born 2 August 1984) is an Australian professional baseball infielder for the Lancaster Barnstormers of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins and Oakland Athletics and also played in international competition for the Australia national baseball team.

Career

Australian career

Hughes played the 2001/2002 season in the International Baseball League of Australia, where he was named as the All-Star second baseman.

He helped the Perth Heat win the 2003 Claxton Shield with a .429 batting average. He also won the Golden Glove in the 2004 Claxton Shield. He currently plays for the Perth Heat in the Australian Baseball League and grew up playing for the Morley Eagles Baseball Club.

American career

He was then signed to the Minnesota Twins early 2002. He debuted professionally a year later with the GCL Twins, reaching base safely in 19 straight games at one point. He was named to the Gulf Coast League All-Star team at third base. In 2004, he moved to the Elizabethton Twins and played second base.

Luke Hughes (furniture designer)

Luke Hughes (born 11 May 1957) is one of the United Kingdom's leading furniture designers and an accomplished mountaineer. He and his practice (Luke Hughes®) have designed and made furniture for over 50 Oxbridge colleges, 100 parish churches, 20 major cathedrals and 5 Royal Palaces, 2 synagogues and 900 corporate boardrooms, including DiageoUnilever, Bloomberg and Reuters. As a mountaineer, his expeditions over 25 years include exploring unmapped areas of central Tibet.

Early life

Luke Hughes was educated at Salisbury Cathedral School and St Paul's School, London before gaining an open history scholarship to Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1974. His final degree was in History of Art & Architecture. Luke acquired cabinet-making skills in the 1970s while working with the harpsichord maker Michael Johnson (then based near Luke’s home in Donhead, Wiltshire) during school and university holidays.

Design career

Hughes set up Bloomsbury Joinery, a small craft workshop in the back-yard of a house in Lamb’s Conduit Street, London, in 1978, before purchasing the freehold of a former banana warehouse in Stukeley Street, Covent Garden, in 1981 – a building which, in 2013, still houses part of his studio. He established Luke Hughes and Company in 1986, while producing design work and prototypes for Liberty & Co. and John Lewis Partnership.