Pete Peterson (baseball)
| Hardy Peterson | |||
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| Catcher | |||
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Born: October 17, 1929 Perth Amboy, New Jersey |
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| MLB debut | |||
| May 5, 1955, for the Pittsburgh Pirates | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| August 8, 1959, for the Pittsburgh Pirates | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .273 | ||
| Home runs | 3 | ||
| Runs batted in | 21 | ||
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Harding William "Pete" Peterson (born October 17, 1929 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey) is an American retired catcher and general manager in Major League Baseball. He is the father of Milwaukee Brewers pitching coach Rick Peterson. During his playing days, he was more commonly known as Hardy Peterson.
A graduate of Rutgers University, where he was a full-season starter on the third-place College World Series team in 1950 and second-team College All American that same year, Peterson spent the first three-plus decades of his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates as a minor and MLB player, minor league manager, farm system director and general manager.
A right-handed batter and thrower, he appeared in 65 major league games over four seasons (1955; 1957–59) and batted .273 with three home runs in limited service, due to a two-year stint in Korea with the U.S. Army. Peterson and is also noted for appearing in the historic last games played at both the Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field in September of 1957. He was 2-for-5 with two runs batted in against the Giants at the Polo Grounds, twice driving home Roberto Clemente. His playing career was effectively ended as the result of a broken arm suffered in a home plate collision at Wrigley Field in early 1959. Later in 1959 he began his managing career at the Class B level and reached Class AAA in 1967 as skipper of the Pirates' top farm club, the Columbus Jets of the International League.
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