Patterson was born in 1943 in Coalinga, California. He is part Mono, a Native American people from the Sierra Nevada region. He attended College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California, where he played baseball and basketball.\n', '

Prior to the 1964 season, Patterson was signed as an amateur free agent by the Los Angeles Dodgers. He spent the 1964 season with the Santa Barbara Dodgers in the California League. He appeared in 22 games and compiled a 1-6 win-loss record with a 6.60 earned run average (ERA) for Santa Barbara.\n', '

On November 30, 1964, the Detroit Tigers drafted Patterson in the 1964 first-year draft. He spent the next three years in the Tigers\' minor league organization, including stints with the Rocky Mount Leafs (3.30 ERA and 138 strikeouts in 161 innings pitched in 1965), Montgomery Rebels (4.78 ERA and 117 strikeouts in 128 innings pitched in 1966), and Toledo Mud Hens (3.23 ERA and 98 strikeouts in 156 innings pitched in 1967).\n', '

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