Raleigh Aitchison

{{short description|American baseball player (1887-1958)}}

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

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Raleigh Aitchison

|image=Raleigh Aitchison, Brooklyn NL (baseball) LCCN2014696197 (cropped).jpg

|position=Pitcher

|birth_date={{Birth date|1887|12|5}}

|birth_place=Tyndall, South Dakota

|death_date={{death date and age|1958|9|26|1887|12|5}}

|death_place=Columbus, Kansas

|bats=Right

|throws=Left

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=April 19

|debutyear=1911

|debutteam=Brooklyn Dodgers

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=June 20

|finalyear=1915

|finalteam="Brooklyn Robins".

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=12–12

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=3.01

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=101

|teams=

• Brooklyn Dodgers/Robins ({{Baseball year|1911}}, {{Baseball year|1914}}–{{Baseball year|1915}})

|highlights=

}}

Raleigh Leonidas Aitchison (December 5, 1887 – September 26, 1958), nicknamed "Redskin"{{cite web|url=http://www.usfamily.net/web/trombleyd/SD%20Born.htm#Raleigh%20Aitchison|title=So. Dakota Born|work=usfamily.net}} was a pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1911 to 1915. He continued to pitch in the minor leagues through 1923 with an assortment of teams.

After his retirement from baseball he worked for 18 years for the Columbus, Kansas police department and was a deputy sheriff for Cherokee County, Kansas.