Partenheimer played college baseball for Amherst College and then appeared in one game Major League Baseball with the Detroit Tigers on June 28, 1913.\n', '

He later spent more than 50 years working in the rubber industry and was credited with developing a "run flat" tire used on American military vehicles.\n', '

Partenheimer was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, in 1891. He attended Amherst College for four years from 1909 to 1913 and was captain of the varsity baseball team as a senior. He was named to Amherst\'s all century baseball team in 1959.\n', '

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