29 Facts About Ted Petoskey

Frederick Lee "Ted" Petoskey was a three-sport athlete at the University of Michigan, a Major League Baseball player, a collegiate coach in three sports and an athletic director.

At the University of Michigan, Petoskey received eight varsity letters in three sports.

Ted Petoskey played parts of the 1934 and 1935 Major League Baseball seasons as an outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds and played minor league baseball until 1944.

Ted Petoskey served in a variety of collegiate coaching positions, including head coach of the University of South Carolina's basketball team, athletic director and football coach at Wofford College, and head baseball coach at the University of South Carolina.

Ted Petoskey was raised in St Charles, Michigan and attended nearby Saginaw Eastern High School.

On October 22,1926, Ted Petoskey became the first receiver in Michigan High School Athletic Association history to garner five receiving touchdowns in a high school football game.

Ted Petoskey once played in a game with University of Michigan head coach Fielding H Yost in the stands.

Ted Petoskey's dreams have a habit of coming true, and happily for Ted Petoskey, most of his dreams are good ones.

Ted Petoskey receives forward passes with great accuracy and when he catches the ball he is difficult to bring down.

Ted Petoskey was alert, followed every play, and opponents found it almost impossible to gain around his end.

In May 1933, the Wolverines baseball team swept the Ohio State Buckeyes, as All-American football players Whitey Wistert pitched a complete game, and Ted Petoskey hit an inside-the-park home run.

Ted Petoskey made his major league debut on September 9,1934, and Wistert made his debut two days later.

Ted Petoskey played in six games in 1934, where he went hitless and struck out five times in seven at bats.

Ted Petoskey returned to the Reds in 1935, but after spring training he was assigned to the minor leagues.

Ted Petoskey played for the Wilmington Pirates in the Piedmont League for most of the 1935 season, where he was hitting.

Ted Petoskey played for the Durham Bulls in the Piedmont League in 1936, where he was hitting.

Ted Petoskey continued to play with the Leafs in 1938 and 1939, before being sold to the Toledo Mud Hens in July 1939.

Until 1940, Ted Petoskey had been coaching in the offseason, while still playing baseball in the summers.

At the time, Ted Petoskey had been playing for the Columbia Reds in the Sally League.

Ted Petoskey remained at Wofford through 1947, taking time off at times to revive his baseball career.

In 1944, Ted Petoskey was a player and manager for the Birmingham Barons of the Southern Association in 1944.

Ted Petoskey served as coach of the Wofford football team.

In 1948, Ted Petoskey returned to the University of South Carolina where he was the head coach of the baseball team until 1956.

Ted Petoskey served as an ends coach for the South Carolina football team.

In what team members remembered as the "hunger game," an angry Coach Ted Petoskey told the players to "get on the bus," and the team rode from Durham, North Carolina to Columbia, South Carolina without having eaten.

In December 1956, Ted Petoskey announced he was leaving the University of South Carolina to work for the New York Yankees, as a baseball scout for the Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and eastern Tennessee territory.

Ted Petoskey served in the mid-1960s as the director of recreation for the South Carolina Department of Corrections.

Ted Petoskey died in Elgin, South Carolina at age 85 in 1996.

Ted Petoskey went on to play end for the Clemson Tigers football team from 1962 to 1964.