Around the Valley: Ted Damiter, one of the Blue Mountain League’s all-time best, dies at 66

Around the Valley: Ted Damiter, one of the Blue Mountain League’s all-time best, dies at 66

Dave Hemerly remembers the first time he saw Ted Damiter. “It was the fall of 1976 and we were both freshmen baseball players at Shippensburg,” Hemerly said. “It was our first day of fall practice and our coach, Art Fairchild, tells Teddy to go out to the mound. He’s warming up and he’s lobbing the ball. He never threw hard in his warmups and I’m looking at him and thinking ‘Who is this kid from McAdoo, Pennsylvania?’ He looked like one of the H…