Steve Yeager

Yeager was born in Huntington, West Virginia. He attended Meadowdale High School in Dayton, Ohio. Yeager hit two grand slams in a single game while playing for Meadowdale.\n', ' He is a cousin of the test pilot Chuck Yeager. Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley was the best man at his wedding to local rock musician Gloria Giaone. Yeager is Jewish, having converted to Judaism when his career was over. He later moved to Granada Hills, California.\n', ' He was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers on June 6, 1967, in the 4th round of the 1967 Major League Baseball draft, when he was 18 years old. After one game with the rookie level Ogden Spikers of the Pioneer League, Yeager was sent to the Dodgers\' Single-A affiliate, the Dubuque Packers of the Midwest League. The following season, in 1968, Yeager played 59 games for the Single-A Daytona Beach Dodgers of the Florida State League. In 1969, he played 22 games for the Bakersfield Dodgers, the Dodgers\' Single-A affiliate in the California League, where he threw out 26 runners from behind the plate. That season he suffered a fractured leg in a first-inning collision with a runner at home plate, but was not aware how bad his injury was, and finished the game.\n', '