Erving Leslie Kantlehner (July 31, 1892 – February 3, 1990), nicknamed "Peanuts", was a professional baseball player who played

pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...

in the Major Leagues from 1914 to 1916. Kantlehner played for the

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and

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. Kantlehner attended

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