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Mark A. Lemke is a full-time commercial mediator, specializing in employment disputes. He has resolved the full range of employment disputes — including discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination, harassment (different and same-sex), failure to accommodate (disability and religion), wage and hour, misclassification and many others. He also specializes in personal injury lawsuits, including catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death. Lemke has mediated more than 1,500 cases.

Lemke is a frequent lecturer and author on employment, insurance and mediation. He is a proud graduate of USC Gould School of Law (’00). He since earned his LLM in Dispute Resolution from the Straus Institute.

Lemke serves on the boards of the Southern California Mediation Association and LGBT Bar Association of Los Angeles. He is also a member of the Mexican American Bar Association and the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles.

He is a lecturer in law for Employment Mediation, assisting with the Employment Mediation Clinic and Advanced Mediation Clinic.

Referred to as “the original dirt player” by Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox, Mark Lemke was a throwback second baseman who rarely left the field with a clean uniform.1 Standing at 5-feet-10-inches and weighing between 165 and 170 pounds, the undersized second baseman contributed in ways that didn’t always show up in a box score. Affectionately called the Lemmer by teammates, Lemke was a clutch player who will always be remembered for his performance in the 1991 World Series.

Jimy Williams, who managed Lemke with the Boston Red Sox and coached him with the Braves, described Lemke’s workmanlike approach to the game as follows: “I’ve just seen him make so many plays and be in the middle of so many rallies at key times, in big games. … He brings his own little sack lunch to the table, while all the other guys are eating filet.”2

Mark Alan Lemke was born on August 13, 1965, in Utica, New York, 40 miles northwest of Cooperstown, and grew up in Whitesboro, a suburb of Utica. He was the youngest of four children of Roger and Patricia Lemke.3 Roger, a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, worked as a federal government contract administrator in Rome, New York. Patricia was employed as an employment counselor.

Mark Lemke may not be the most famous member of the Lemke clan. His family tree includes a presidential candidate. Lemke is the second cousin twice removed of William Lemke, an eight-term Republican member of the US House of Representatives from North Dakota and the 1936 Union Party presidential candidate.4 When asked about his distant relationship to the one-time presidential candidate, Lemke responded, “I have been asked about that a lot and haven’t disputed it because it sounds pretty good.”5

Mark attended Sacred Heart Elementary School and Notre Dame High School in Utica. At Notre Dame he played both baseball and basketball. According to Lemke, he actually took basketball more seriously.6 However, the diminutive guard attracted little inte

American baseball player (born 1965)

Baseball player

Mark Alan Lemke (born August 13, 1965) is an American former Major League Baseball player and current broadcaster. Nicknamed "the Lemmer", he was a popular second baseman for the Atlanta Braves from 1988 to 1997. He won the 1995 World Series with the Braves over the Cleveland Indians.

Biography

Early life

Lemke grew up in Whitesboro, New York. He attended the now closed Sacred Heart Elementary Catholic school in West Utica. Lemke is also a graduate of Notre Dame High School in Utica.

Minor league

Lemke was drafted in the 27th round of the 1983 amateur draft by the Atlanta Braves. Lemke decided against attending Purdue University and spent the next four years in the Braves' minor league system, spending time with the Gulf Coast League Braves, Anderson Braves, Sumter Braves, Durham Bulls, Greenville Braves, and Richmond Braves. He made his major league debut on September 17, 1988, when the Braves called him up from AAA when the roster expanded to 40 players. In 1988, Lemke won the Hank Aaron Award as the top offensive player in the Braves' minor league system. Lemke split time between the minor and major leagues until 1990.

Career

In his 11-year career, Lemke played in 62 postseason games and appeared in four World Series (1991, 1992, 1995, 1996), all with Atlanta in their "Big Three" era.

He led the team with a .417 batting average in the 1991 World Series. He won a World Series with the Braves in 1995. He also was the last out in the 1996 World Series, when the New York Yankees won their first World Series in 18 years, popping out to Yankee third baseman Charlie Hayes with the count full. Lemke is the all-time record holder for most career plate appearances without being hit by a pitch (3,664).

Boston Red Sox

The sharp fielding Lemke left the Braves after the 1997 season. On March 26, 1998, he signed as a free agent with the Boston Red Sox. Whi