Major and minor
After the 1941 baseball season, Roettger—then in his early forties—enlisted in the [[United States Army]] for [[World War II]] military service. When the war ended, he joined Rawlings full-time, working into the 1980s as the company's chief sales executive for Major and minor league teams. In 1983, in [[Nashville, Tennessee]], he was presented with the [[King of Baseball]] Award given by Minor League Baseball at the annual winter meetings.