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Erik Pappas

American baseball player and coach (born 1966)

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American baseball player and coach (born 1966)

Field	Value
name	Erik Pappas
image	1988 Grand Slam - Erik Pappas (cropped).webp
caption	Pappas with the Midland Angels 1988
position	Catcher
bats	Right
throws	Right
birth_date
birth_place	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
debutleague	MLB
debutdate	April 19
debutyear	1991
debutteam	Chicago Cubs
finalleague	MLB
finaldate	April 30
finalyear	1994
finalteam	St. Louis Cardinals
statleague	MLB
stat1label	Batting average
stat1value	.242
stat2label	Home runs
stat2value	1
stat3label	Runs batted in
stat3value	35

Chicago Cubs ()
St. Louis Cardinals (–) Erik Daniel Pappas (born April 25, 1966) is an American former professional baseball player and coach. He played as a catcher in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals.

Baseball career

The Chicago native is a 1984 graduate of Mount Carmel High School. Pappas was selected by the California Angels as the 6th overall pick in the first round of the 1984 Major League Baseball draft. He made his major league debut with the Chicago Cubs on April 19, 1991, at the age of 24. He appeared in 8 games for the Cubs during the 1991 season and appeared in a total of 97 games for the Cardinals during 1993 and 1994 seasons. During the 1993 season, he had one home run and 28 RBIs. Pappas played in his final major league game on April 30, 1994, at the age of 28. On August 13, 1996, while a member of the Texas Rangers' Triple-A Oklahoma City 89ers, Pappas caught a perfect game pitched by Rick Helling against the Nashville Sounds.

Pappas, who is of Greek ancestry, was selected to play for the Greek national baseball team in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He played for Greece in the 2023 European Baseball Championship.

Career statistics

In a three-year major league career, Pappas played in 104 games, accumulating 70 hits in 289 at bats for a .242 career batting average along with 1 home run, 35 runs batted in and a .342 on-base percentage. He ended his career with a .978 fielding percentage.

Coaching career

After his playing career, Pappas became the hitting coach for the Peoria Chiefs. Pappas spent 2006–12 at the Cangelosi Baseball Academy in Orland Park, Illinois, while also serving as a scout for the Texas Rangers from 2005 to 2009. Pappas became a coach in the Cardinals system as the Springfield Cardinals hitting coach for the 2014 season.

Pappas currently resides in the Beverly neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois.

References

"Erik Pappas statistics". Baseball Reference.
[https://mccaravan.org/sports/2019/03/25/the-tradition-of-baseball-at-mc/ Hoey, Miles. "The tradition of baseball at MC," ''The Caravan'' (Mount Carmel High School), March 25, 2019.] Retrieved September 25, 2023.
"1984 Baseball Draft". thebaseballcube.com.
(August 14, 1996). "Sounds are Victims of a Perfect Game". The Tennessean.
(2015-03-29). "Erik Pappas, Unlikely Olympian - 321".
Clair, Michael. (September 25, 2023). "Former MLBer Erik Pappas is back and playing for Greece ... at 57 years old".
"Erik Daniel Pappas".

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