Peter D. Baldwin (born in 1937), like his father Manduke, attended Cornell University where, in addition to his studies, he competed and won the intercollegiate polo championships in 1959. After graduation, Peter returned to Haleakala Ranch and worked in the Haleakala Dairy division, which he acquired in the early 80s and became president of in 1979.

Almost all his life, Peter has been a real cowboy and truly knows how to handle cattle. An active rodeo competitor in his younger days, Peter calf-roped on the mainland circuit and also in Hawaii. During later years, he played polo in tournaments across the United States, and in New Zealand and Australia. One of his most noteworthy achievements was in 1987, when Maui’s team won the Pacific Coast Open, the America’s Cup and the U.S. Handicap; that year, Peter was voted “Amateur Player of the Year” by the United States Polo Association.

Friends tell many humorous stories about Peter but Freddie Rice recalls one of the craziest: “Some rodeo steers got loose one night in Hilo – Peter was roping a horned steer that got away and was running into a crowded tent at the Hilo Fair about 9 o’clock at night. He slid all over the concrete floor trying to stop his horse and the steer (in the middle of a crowd) and with the steer on the end of the rope, turned and pulled it back out of the tent right through the crowd, and nobody got hurt or even bumped by it. Everybody in the tent just stood there frozen, most not realizing what they had just seen.”