{{short description|American baseball player (born 1955)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography |name = Ross Baumgarten |image = Ross Baumgarten White Sox.jpg |alt = |caption = |position = Pitcher |bats = Left |throws = Left |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|5|27|mf=y}} |birth_place = Highland Park, Illinois, U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |debutleague = MLB |debutdate = August 16 |debutyear = 1978 |debutteam = Chicago White Sox |finalleague = MLB |finaldate = August 23 |finalyear = 1982 |finalteam = Pittsburgh Pirates |statleague = MLB |stat1label = Win–loss record |stat1value = 22–36 |stat2label = Earned run average |stat2value = 4.02 |stat3label = Strikeouts |stat3value = 222 |teams = * Chicago White Sox ({{baseball year|1978}}–{{baseball year|1981}}) * Pittsburgh Pirates ({{baseball year|1982}}) }}
'''Ross Baumgarten''' (born May 27, 1955) is an American former professional baseball player who was a pitcher in Major League Baseball for five seasons in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Baumgarten played for the Chicago White Sox from 1978 to 1981, and Pittsburgh Pirates in 1982.
== Early years ==
Baumgarten was born in Highland Park, Illinois, and is Jewish.<ref name=JSR>{{cite journal |title=Big League Jews|journal=Jewish Sports Review |date=January–February 2020 |volume=12 |issue=137 |page=18}}</ref> He attended New Trier High School, in Winnetka, Illinois.<ref name="baseball-reference1">{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/baumgro01.shtml |title=Ross Baumgarten Stats |publisher=Baseball-Reference.com |date= |accessdate=2020-02-03}}</ref>
== College career == He attended Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida, and Palm Beach Community College in Lake Worth, Florida.<ref name="baseball-reference1"/>
Baumgarten then attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. In 1976, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Hyannis Mets of the Cape Cod Baseball League.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://capecodbaseball.org.ismmedia.com/ISM3/std-content/repos/Top/2012website/archives/Current%20Year/All_Time_MLB_CCBL_Alumni.pdf |title=Major League Baseball Players From the Cape Cod League |publisher=capecodbaseball.org |date= |accessdate=September 25, 2019}}</ref> He was a left-handed starting pitcher for coach Jay Bergman's Florida Gators baseball team in 1977. He was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the twentieth round of the 1977 Major League Baseball draft.<ref name="baseball-reference1"/>
== Professional career ==
While pitching for the White Sox's Appleton, Wisconsin minor league club in 1978, Baumgarten was 9–1 with a 1.82 earned run average (ERA) as a starting pitcher, and earned promotion to the White Sox major league club.<ref name="baseball-reference1"/>
Baumgarten posted a win–loss record of 13–8 in 1979, and was sixth in the American League with three shutouts.<ref name="baseball-reference1"/> He finished fourth in American League Rookie of the Year voting, and was voted to the 1979 Topps All-Star Rookie Team. On July 2, 1980, Baumgarten pitched a one-hitter for the White Sox against the California Angels. The lone Angels hit was a single by Rod Carew in the top of the seventh inning, and the White Sox won the game, 1–0.
In March 1982, the White Sox traded Baumgarten, together with Butch Edge, to the Pittsburgh Pirates in exchange for Ernie Camacho and Vance Law. After one season in Pittsburgh, his major league career ended.
== Life after baseball ==
Ross works at Robert W. Baird & Co. in Chicago on a team of financial advisers,{{Citation needed|date=February 2009}} as well as a baseball coach at New Trier High School.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newtrier.k12.il.us/page.aspx?id=896 |title=Home of the 2000 & 2009 Class 4A State Champions {{!}} New Trier Township High School |website=www.newtrier.k12.il.us |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111105193454/http://www.newtrier.k12.il.us/page.aspx?id=896 |archive-date=2011-11-05}} </ref>
== See also ==
{{Portal|Baseball}} * List of Florida Gators baseball players * List of Jewish Major League Baseball players {{clear}}
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Baseballstats|br=b/baumgro01|fangraphs=1000689 |brm=baumga001ros}}, or [https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B/Pbaumr101.htm Retrosheet]
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