page_title: Pete Filson
section_title: Playing career
hierarchical_section_title: Pete Filson / Playing career
caption_attribution_description: English: Pitcher Pete Filson of the 1981 Nashville Sounds Minor League Baseball team of the Southern League
context_page_description: William Peter Filson is a retired Major League Baseball pitcher. He played during seven seasons at the major league level for the Minnesota Twins, Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, and Kansas City Royals.
context_section_description: Filson attended Temple University, and in 1977 and 1978 he played collegiate summer baseball with the Hyannis Mets of the Cape Cod Baseball League. He was selected by the Yankees in the 9th round of the 1979 MLB Draft. 
  Filson played his first professional season with their Rookie league Paintsville Yankees and Class-A (Short Season) Oneonta Yankees in 1979, and split his last between Kansas City and their Triple-A Omaha Royals in 1990. Filson can be seen delivering a single pitch as a Royal in the Ken Burns documentary Baseball, at the beginning of the section entitled "Extra Innings."
caption: Filson with the Nashville Sounds in 1981
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