Timothy Joseph Leiper is an American professional baseball coach and manager. Leiper, a former outfielder, had a 12-season minor league playing career in the farm systems of the Detroit Tigers, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Mets and Kansas City Royals, batting .273 with 40 home runs in 1,166 games and 3,910 at bats. He batted left-handed, threw right-handed, stood 5 foot, 11 inches tall and weighed 175 pounds. His coaching career began while he was still an active player: he spent part of the 1992 season as an assistant baseball coach for North Carolina State University. In 1996, Leiper became a coach in the professional ranks, in the Mets' organization. He moved up to managing in 2000 in the Montr�al Expos' organization, working at the Short Season-A and Class A levels before his promotion to the Triple-A Ottawa Lynx of the International League in 2002. After Leiper guided the Lynx to 80 wins in 143 games that season, he spent one season as pilot of the Class A Sarasota Red Sox before returning to the Lynx in 2004, who were by then the Triple-A affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles. 

July 19th, 1966 in Whittier (Age 58)