Andy Teter

Andy Teter graduated from Wichita’s Cathedral High School after already enlisting in the Coast Guard in 1945.  An all-around athlete, Teter played baseball and basketball for Coast Guard teams and at Friends University in Wichita.  

He played AAU basketball and played against the Harlem Globetrotters. He also refereed high school sports in Kansas and Oklahoma.

Teter played minor league baseball for four years and was the centerfielder for the famed Boeing Bombers, who won back-to-back NBC World Series championships in 1954 and 1955. The 1955 team went on to win the first of only three NBC Global World Series in Milwaukee’s County Stadium. 

He played on or managed various other semi-pro teams over the years including the Cessna Bobcats, the Garden Plain Indians, the Weller Indians, Instant Glass, Service Auto Glass, Bob Moore Oldsmobile and the Holyoke (Mass.) Allies.  Altogether, Teter participated in 18 NBC World Series.

He once hit a home run off Satchel Paige. When he managed the Weller Indians in 1960, Teter brought Paige back to the tournament to pitch for Weller.

Teter, who worked for Boeing, died in 2014 at the age of 86.