Pete Redfern

Peter Irvine Redfern

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 2", Weight 195 lb.
• School University of Southern California
• High School Sylmar High School
• Debut May 15, 1976
• Final Game September 5, 1982
• Born August 25, 1954 in Glendale, CA USA

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Biographical Information

Pete Redfern played for Team USA in the 1975 Pan American Games, winning a Silver Medal. A right-handed pitcher, he spent all seven seasons of his big league career with the Minnesota Twins mainly as a starter. Redfern on April 6, 1982 started for the Twins in the first regular season game played in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. He took the loss for the Twins, a 11-7 setback to the Mariners. Redfern was paralyzed in a 1983 diving accident.

His son, Chad Redfern, pitched in the Atlanta Braves and Tampa Bay Devil Rays systems in 2003 and 2004.

Related Sites

• Article from 1998 about Redfern