:Rick Kreuger

{{short description|American baseball player (born 1948)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Rick Kreuger

|position=Pitcher

|image=

|bats=Right

|throws=Left

|birth_date={{Birth date and age|1948|11|3}}

|birth_place=Grand Rapids, Michigan

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=September 6

|debutyear=1975

|debutteam=Boston Red Sox

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=May 7

|finalyear=1978

|finalteam=Cleveland Indians

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=2–2

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=4.06

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=20

|stat2league = NPB

|stat21label=Win–loss record

|stat21value=2–1

|stat22label=Earned run average

|stat22value=4.66

|stat23label=Strikeouts

|stat23value=16

|teams=

• Boston Red Sox ({{mlby|1975}}–{{mlby|1977}})
• Cleveland Indians ({{mlby|1978}})
• Yomiuri Giants ({{npby|1979}})

}}

Richard Allen Kreuger (born November 3, 1948) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1975 through 1978 for the Boston Red Sox (1975–77) and Cleveland Indians (1978). Listed at {{height|ft=6|in=2}}, 185 lb., he batted right-handed and threw left-handed.

An All-American at Michigan State University, Kreuger posted a 2–2 record with 20 strikeouts and a 4.06 ERA in 17 appearances for Boston and Cleveland. He also pitched for the Yomiuri Giants (1979) of Japan, Triple-A Pawtucket Red Sox (1980), and in the Puerto Rican league for the Criollos de Caguas (1981).

Following his playing career, Kreuger worked as a head baseball coach at Cornerstone College (1995–96) and has done some mission work, traveling to Russia and talked to children in orphanages and to soldiers. He has also gone on a couple of mission trips with former Cleveland Browns tackle Bill Glass, visiting prisons in Pittsburgh and Florida.

Rick Kreuger retired from teaching Pre-Algebra and Algebra 1 mathematics at Walker Charter Academy in Walker, MI at the end of the 2015 to 2016 school year.