Oscar Roettger

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Oscar Frederick Louis Roettger (February 19, 1900 – July 4, 1986) was an American baseball player whose 19-year active career was augmented by brief service as a minor-league manager and over 35 years as the liaison between the Rawlings Sporting Goods Company and professional baseball. In his abbreviated Major League career, he appeared in 37 total games as a pitcher and first baseman for the New York Yankees (1923–1924), Brooklyn Robins (1927) and Philadelphia Athletics (1932). He threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and weighed 170 pounds (77 kg). The native of St. Louis, Missouri, was the eldest of three brothers who made baseball their profession; the others were Wally Roettger, an outfielder who played in 599 games over eight seasons (1927–1934) with four National League teams, and, later, a college baseball head coach; and Harold, a front-office executive who worked for Branch Rickey with both the Brooklyn Dodgers and Pittsburgh Pirates. Oscar's playing career lasted from 1921–1939. He broke into the Majors with the Yankees of Babe Ruth as a pitcher, but he struggled on the mound in a six-game trial spread out over two seasons. Sent back to the minors, he

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