Mark Leiter
Mark Edward Leiter is a former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who had an 11-year career from to and in. Leiter grew up in Toms River, New Jersey.
Leiter graduated from Central Regional High School in 1981, where he played baseball together with his brother Al and Jeff Musselman.Career
Mark played for the New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers, California Angels and Seattle Mariners, all of the American League. He also played for the San Francisco Giants, Montreal Expos, Philadelphia Phillies and Milwaukee Brewers, all of the National League.
As a member of the Giants, he won the 1994 Willie Mac Award honoring his spirit and leadership.Personal life
Mark's brother, Al Leiter, was also a major league pitcher and his son, Mark Leiter Jr., also pitched for the Philadelphia Phillies and is now a Toronto Blue Jay.
Leiter's 9-month-old son Ryan died of spinal muscular atrophy in 1994. He and his wife, Allison, started the Ryan Leiter Fund to raise funds for families of victims of the disease. Leiter and his wife later divorced.
In 1999, Leiter was sued in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois by a woman who alleged that Leiter had punched her and extinguished a cigarette on her arm during an extramarital affair.
