Raymond D. “Mim” Baer, son of James Alvin Baer and Sallie [Hoy] Baer of Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, was a minor league baseball pitcher for the Chicago White Sox (American League) organization from 1950-1954. He was born 29 October 1927 and died on 17 April 2018 at the Stonebridge Health and Rehabilitation Center, Duncannon, Perry County, Pennsylvania.
His obituary from Hoover-Boyer Funeral Home stated the following about his professional baseball career:
Mim was a lifetime resident of Millersburg except for the six years he spent playing minor league baseball in Wisconsin, Kansas, Iowa, Arkansas, and other midwestern states for the Chicago White Sox organization.
From evening and weekend games played on sandlot fields in Dauphin and Northumberland counties for Millersburg ‘town teams’ to the innings he spent threading curve balls past up-and-coming big leaguers like Hank Aaron in Wisconsin and North Dakota, baseball was a lifelong passion that Mim successfully passed along to his children and grandchildren…
After bringing his baseball bride back to Millersburg from northern Wisconsin, Mim drove truck for nearly forty years as an employee of Millersburg’s Nelson’s Express.
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