Luke Voit was born Louis Linwood Voit III 13 February 1991 in Wildwood, Missouri. He is a first baseman for the New York Yankees and led major league baseball in home runs in 2020 with 22.
You can read about Luke's baseball career elsewhere. You can even get his book for young kids. I want to discuss his family history below the fold.
Luke Voit descends from the Baltimore family of Leopold Voit described here. His grandfather, Louis Linwood Voit, was Leopold Voit's grandson.
1 Leopold Voit (1864-?)
+ Wilhelmina Schoen
2 Louisa Marie Voit (1893-1915)
2 Marie T Voit (1894-1965)
+ Frank Sauers
2 George Washington Voit (1895-1995)
+ Suzanne B
3 George Washington Voit (1922-1999)
2 Adolph Herman Voit (1896-1970)
+ Sophia B Mackiewcz
2 John Charles Voit (1900-1970)
+ Emma Maria Renstrom
3 Hilda Ruth Voit (1936-1998)
+ Jacob Kenneth Diggs
3 John Charles Voit II (1938-2015)
2 Frederick Louis Voit (1903-1984)
+ Gertrude Peters
3 Louis Linwood Voit (1932-2013)
Leopold Voit was said to have been from Austria, however, in the days of the Habsburg Empire that could also mean parts of present-day Czechia like Bohemia. I've seen undocumented references to his birth in present-day Lestkov in the Pilzen region of Czechia. If anyone has any information about Leopold Voit please don't hesitate to post a comment.
Finally, here's an interview with Luke's mom and dad at his major league debut:
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