George Witt

Who is George Witt?

George Adrian Witt, sometimes listed as Red Witt, was a former professional baseball pitcher. He played all or part of six seasons in Major League Baseball with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Los Angeles Angels and Houston Colt .45's.

Witt was a member of the 1960 World Series champion Pirates. For his career he compiled an 11–16 record with a 4.32 earned run average and 156 strikeouts in 66 appearances.

Witt was a high school physical education instructor, a science teacher, and a baseball and tennis coach at Tustin High School in Tustin, California; as well as a former Foreign Study League group leader, leading high school students through a number of European foreign capitals comparing different governmental systems.

Witt was once offered the job to be the stand-in for Chuck Connors in the TV Series, The Rifleman. He was also an avid surfer and loved the beach.