Donald George Leppert is a former professional baseball player who played catcher

Catcher

Catcher is a position for a baseball or softball player. When a batter takes his turn to hit, the catcher crouches behind home plate, in front of the umpire, and receives the ball from the pitcher. This is a catcher's primary duty, but he is also called upon to master many other skills in order to...

 in the Major Leagues from 1961-1964. He would play for the Washington Senators

Texas Rangers (baseball)

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 and Pittsburgh Pirates

Pittsburgh Pirates

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. After his playing career ended, Leppert was a coach

Coach (baseball)

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 for the Pirates (1968–76), Toronto Blue Jays

Toronto Blue Jays

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 (1977–79) and Houston Astros

Houston Astros

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 (1980–85). He then served as field coordinator of minor league instruction for the Minnesota Twins

Minnesota Twins

The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. They played in Metropolitan Stadium from 1961 to 1981 and the...

 and managed in the Twins' farm system.

He is sometimes confused with Don Eugene Leppert

Don Leppert (second baseman)

Don Eugene Leppert is an American former professional baseball second baseman. Nicknamed "Tiger," Leppert stood 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighed 175 pounds , batted left-handed and threw right-handed.Leppert attended Christian Brothers High School in Memphis and signed his first pro contract...

, a second baseman

Second baseman

Second base, or 2B, is the second of four stations on a baseball diamond which must be touched in succession by a base runner in order to score a run for that player's team. A second baseman is the baseball player guarding second base...

 who played one year in Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball

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 with the 1955 Baltimore Orioles

1955 Baltimore Orioles season

The 1955 Baltimore Orioles season involved the Orioles finishing 7th in the American League with a record of 57 wins and 97 losses, 39 games behind the AL champion New York Yankees...

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