#64 Pete Broberg

Great expectations out of #1 draft pick.... Dartmouth educated....Florida born, handsome and well groomed....Taken by the Senators in 1971 and pressed immediately into the big league mound.....despite a 5-9 record accounted well for himself sporting a 3.47 ERA...far and away his career best..... making the move to Texas and was the first Ranger to win a game..... however Pete experienced bulging  ERAs and eventual demotion to minors.....1975 resurfaced in Milwaukee....established himself as team top winner taking on 14 triumphs for a substandard squad....nearly cut his ERA in half from his truncated 1974 number....temporary highlight....could only capture one conquest in 1976, a slight uptick in ERA indicates a season long stretch of tough luck over failed performance.....Broberg’s last two years MLB servitude are a case of a road rarely travel.....left unprotected for the expansion draft selected the infant Seattle Mariners....was a Mariner during spring training....did not make the sea goers roster but since they were sans a AAA team at the time he was loaned to the Cubs Wichita club.....Impressed Cubs organization in an exhibition game performance against the big club to the extent he was acquired by the Northsiders (a rare case of a change of clubs who owned his contract but not changing team).....was able to worm his way to the Cubbie’s friendly confines midseason.....At the end of Spring training 1978 did not fit into the Cub’s roster so he was traded to talent deplete Oakland A’s.....Riding an early season surges was able to go 4-0 (1.08 ERA) and 9-6 at midsummer but only finished with a 10-12 record with 4.62 ERA.....entertained possibly going further with LA Dodgers for 1979 but opted to use his Ivy League pedigree.....returned to the family attorney’s practice specializing in real estate and estate planning in native Florida....aside from a small contribution to the 1974 Rangers and the .500 Cubs, Broberg was decidedly a second division player....outspoken beyond his years and butted head with certain skippers....did better with those he liked.