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Tom Herr
The St. Louis Cardinals captured three National League pennants during the 1980s. The team’s stalwart second baseman during the successful run was Tom Herr, a line-drive hitter who played outstanding defense and had a knack for getting on base. In his All-Star season of 1985, Herr hit .302 with career bests in home runs (8) and runs batted in (110). The switch-hitter batted .271, accumulated 1,450 hits, and committed only 77 errors over the course of his 13-year major league career. “Cool Hand Luke. That’s what comes to mind when I think about Tom. He is a cool cucumber, but at the same time, he is fiercely competitive,” former teammate Andy Van Slyke once said. - SABR
Tom Herr began his big-league career with 1,160 at-bats without a home run. Finally, against the Giants’ Andy McGaffigan on May 10, 1983, Herr hit his first HR. “Now the pressure’s really on,” the Giants’ Duane Kuiper, who at that point had one homer in 3,069 big league at-bats and would finish his career with one homer in 3,379 ABs, told the San Francisco Examiner. “They’ll expect him to hit another one.” Eight days later, Herr would homer again off Houston’s Bill Dawley.
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