[3] He was a left-handed starting pitcher for coach Jay Bergman's Florida Gators baseball team in 1977.

[2] While pitching for the White Sox's Appleton, Wisconsin minor league club in 1978, Baumgarten was 9–1 with a 1.82 earned run average (ERA) as a starting pitcher, and earned promotion to the White Sox major league club.

The lone Angels hit was a single by Rod Carew in the top of the seventh inning, and the White Sox won the game, 1–0.

In March 1982, the White Sox traded Baumgarten, together with Butch Edge, to the Pittsburgh Pirates in exchange for Ernie Camacho and Vance Law.

Ross works at Robert W. Baird & Co. in Chicago on a team of financial advisers,[citation needed] as well as a baseball coach at New Trier High School.