Ray Peters was a pitcher in the Seattle Pilots and Milwaukee Brewers
organization and pitched for the Brewers in 1970. He has been getting in
touch with former teammates and opponents. With the help of Keith from
NYC, I have been making cards for those teammates, most of whom didn't
have cards or had very few.
Roric Harrison
and Ray Peters played together in 1969 with the Seattle Pilots team in the Arizona Instructional League and the again in 1970 with the Portland Beavers in the PCL. He was also the last A.L. pitcher to hit a home run in a game before the DH went into effect in 1972.
Ray told me that Mr Harrison is proud of the fact that he
was one the field after Hank Aaron hit #715, he is #24 in the image on
the back of the 1973 card.
Bill Leinheiser
pitched with Ray with the Evansville Triplets in 1971. Mr Leinheiser also pitched for the 1969 NCAA College World Series Champion Arizona State Sun Devils. In 1971, Mr Leinheiser pitched well for the Milwukee Brewers against the Atlanta Braves in an exhibition game.
According to the LaCrosse Tribune from August 10, 1971,
"The
attractions
were
the
Atlanta
Braves,
County
Stadium
tenants
from
1953-65,
and
the
brilliant
Henry
Aaron,
who
hit
398
of
his
623
major
league
home
runs
in
a
Milwaukee
Braves
uniform.
But
for
the
second
straight
year
in
this
exhibition,
the
upstart
Milwaukee
Brewers
took
a
1-0
victory.
Johnny
Briggs
gave
the
Brewers
all
the
offense
they
needed
with
an
opposite-field
home
run
in
the
first
inning,
then
turned
things
over
to
a
minor
league
battery.
Bill
Leinheiser,
a
skinny
23-
y
e
a
r-old
right-hander
who
couldn’t
even
start
for
his
college
team,
kept
the
heavy-hitting
Braves
off
balance
with
an
exploding
curve
ball"