Born in Trumbauersville, Pennsylvania, Detweiler was one of many promising young ballplayers whose careers were interrupted by military service during World War II.\n', '

Following his graduation from Quakertown High School in 1938, Detweiler moved to Federalsburg, Maryland in 1939. He then became a well known sports figure in an area that involved baseball, basketball, and football, while serving as an official, umpire, and assignor of games. That year he signed a contract with the Philadelphia Athletics and played for their affiliate team, the Federalsburg Athletics of the Eastern Shore League. The Federalsburg team paid him $75 a month during the 1939 ESL season. This class-D league contract was Detweiler\'s first of many in professional baseball, and he responded with a .292 batting average and 10 home runs in 98 games as a second baseman/outfielder, while helping the team clinch the league pennant.\n', '

In 1940, Detweiler gained a promotion to the Wilmington Blue Rocks of the Class B Interstate League, where he switched to third base and batted .313 with a .472 slugging percentage in 93 games. In 1941 he was traded to the Boston Bees organization, opening the year in the PONY League with the Bradford Bees before joining the Bridgeport Bees of the Interstate League during the midseason, batting a combined .310 average and a slugging of .448 in 106 games.\n', '

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