Red Swanson (baseball)
Arthur Leonard "Red" Swanson is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. Signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as a bonus baby in, he spent the next two full years with the team as required by the draft rule of that time. He was assigned to the minor leagues in, and continued to pitch until, but never got back to the majors.
Swanson graduated from Neville High School in Monroe, Louisiana.
His father, A. L. Swanson, coached both baseball and basketball at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
