One of Bowers' career highlights came in his first game as a professional in the Short Season-A Northern League. On July 4, 1968, the 19-year-old Bowers crashed through the right field fence as he chased a foul fly ball while playing for the Huron Phillies in the first game of a doubleheader against the Duluth-Superior Dukes at Memorial Park Stadium in Huron, South Dakota. He emerged from the hole in the fence uninjured, but he didn't make the catch.Howe News Bureau, Seattle Mariners 1982 Organization Book. Bowers was reported to be "startled, none the worse for his experience.""Phillies' Fielder Fractures Fence," The Daily Plainsman, Huron, South Dakota, July 5, 1968, retrieved from Newspapers.com, February 10, 2022.
