 He also spent all but two seasons of his coaching career in the minors; the exceptions came in and when he was the big-league pitching coach of the Orioles under managers Joe Altobelli and Earl Weaver.Rowe batted and threw right-handed and was listed as tall and .He signed with his hometown Detroit Tigers in 1953 and bounced among five Detroit farm teams in the lower minors until November 1955, when he was drafted by the Dodgers, still in Brooklyn.