Ray Rohwer

{{Short description|American baseball player (1895–1988)}}

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{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Ray Rohwer

|image=1923 Zeenut Ray Rohwer.jpg

|position=Outfielder

|birth_date={{Birth date|1895|6|5}}

|birth_place=Dixon, California

|death_date={{death date and age|1988|1|24|1895|6|5}}

|death_place=Davis, California

|bats=Left

|throws=Left

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=April 13

|debutyear=1921

|debutteam=Pittsburgh Pirates

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=September 1

|finalyear=1922

|finalteam=Pittsburgh Pirates

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Batting average

|stat1value=.284

|stat2label=Home runs

|stat2value=3

|stat3label=RBI

|stat3value=28

|teams=

• Pittsburgh Pirates (1921–22)

|highlights=

}}

Ray Arthur Rohwer (April 5, 1895 – September 1, 1988) was an outfielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He spent parts of two seasons with the Pirates, playing in 83 games during the 1921–22 seasons. Rohwer came of an old Solano County family. He played college baseball at the University of California, where he joined Theta Xi, before serving in the Army during World War I.

In 83 games over two major league seasons, Rohwer posted a .284 batting average (48-for-169) with 25 runs, 3 home runs and 28 RBI.

After his playing for the Pirates, Rohwer spent nine seasons in the Pacific Coast League, playing for Seattle, Portland and Sacramento. He compiled a career .299 average and rapped out 1,402 hits, 287 doubles, 61 triples and 196 home runs during his time in the PCL, which ran from 1923 until 1931.[https://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=rohwer001ray/ Ray Rohwer, Baseball Reference] In 1927, Rohwer once had six plate appearances in a game without an official at bat.[https://books.google.com/books?id=4ApM-wmc0BIC&q=%22ray+rohwer%22+dixon+davis%2F&pg=PA223 The Pacific Coast League, A Statistical History, 1903–1957, Dennis Snelling, page 223]

Rohwer's brother, Claude, also played baseball, getting into two games with the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League in 1920, then played the 1922 season with Charleston of the South Atlantic League, and 1923–24 seasons with Sacramento of the PCL.[https://books.google.com/books?id=DDvo6F01ce4C&q=rohwer+dixon+baseball%2F&pg=PA65 Gold on the Diamond: Sacramento's Greatest Baseball Players 1886 to 1976, by Alan O'Connor, page 65]