Sunday, June 12, 2022

Gary Weiss

Career: Played for the Dodgers for parts of the 1980 and '81 seasons.

Did you know? Wore uniform #1, which was retired by the Dodgers in 1984 in honor of HOF shortstop Pee Wee Reese ... collected the only hits of his career, a pair of singles off the Reds' Mario Soto, on September 20, 1981 ... his son Erich played for the University of Texas in the minor leagues, retiring after the 2019 season. 

Post-game: Has worked at Germania Insurance Company for the past 40 years, rising to the rank of 1st Vice President.

Sources: Baseball Reference; Retrosheet; Los Angeles Times, 9/21/1981, linkedIn.com, accessed 6/12/2022.

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