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\nKen Raffensberger, seen in this York Daily Record\/Sunday News file photo, did not play for William Penn High School because the school did not have a baseball team during his tenure. Information with the photo states: Raffensberger left high school after his junior year and played for American Legion Post 127. The St. Louis Cardinals signed the lefty in 1937. He threw four one-hitters and 31 shutouts in his 15-year major league career. His pro career ended with the York White Roses in 1955, and rookie Brooks Robinson was one of his teammates.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nWhen Ken Raffensberger, York County-born former Cincinnati Reds’ pitcher, died in 2002, sports editor Chris Otto linked the left-hander with the White Roses.
\nAfter a long major-league career that included the hurling of four one-hitters, Raffensberger almost finished as a Baltimore Oriole.
\nAfter playing with a team in Havana, Cuba, in 1955, he returned to York and played with the White Roses.<\/a>
\n“That was the year Brooks Robinson<\/a> played here and the Orioles came up for an exhibition game. I pitched and we whupped them something awful (13-1)…,” Raffensberger explained in 1986. “I figured that game might earn me a contract with the Orioles but they had committed themselves to a youth movement.”
\nAbout that exhibition game, The Gazette and Daily wrote that the Roses, “humiliated the so-called big league club.” … .<\/p>\n


\nRaffensberger was one former player who had no regrets about his lot his life.
\n“I can’t complain. Baseball’s been good to me,” he said in 1986. “At my peak I was making top scale wages at the time, was included when the players’ pension fund was created, and have been receiving checks regularly since I was 50, with increases every year.
\nRelated posts:
\n– York has Brooks Robinson statue. Where’s Baltimore’s?<\/a>.
\n– York Revolution’s season opener No. 3: Remembering York\/Adams major leaguers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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