Eric Plunk Stats & Facts
Eric Plunk Essentials Positions: Bats: R Throws: R Height: 77 Weight: 210 Born: Tuesday, September 03, 1963 in Wilmington, CA USA Died: in , Debut: 5/12/1986 Last Game: 10/2/1999 Full Name: Eric Vaughn Plunk
Sammy Sosa also eclipses a National League record for the most home runs hit at one park by one player
Sammy Sosa’s ninth-inning homer in the bottom of the ninth off Eric Plunk helps to tie the game at 10 runs apiece in the Cubs’ eventual 11-10 extra-inning victory over Milwaukee at Wrigley Field. The round-tripper, his second of the contest, is the Chicago right fielder’s 62nd of the season, to pass Roger Maris’s single season mark and ties him with Mark McGwire for the league’s lead.
New York Yankees trade disgruntled superstar Rickey Henderson
On June 21, 1989, the New York Yankees trade disgruntled superstar Rickey Henderson, hitting only .247 at the time, to the Oakland A’s for outfielder Luis Polonia and pitchers Greg Cadaret and Eric Plunk. Henderson, who had started his major league career with the A’s in 1979, had joined the Yankees in a…
Yankees get the man of STEAL
1984 – The Oakland A’s send base-stealing OF Rickey Henderson and P Bert Bradley to the Yankees in exchange for pitchers Jay Howell and Jose Rijo, OF Stan Javier, and minor leaguers Tim Birtsas and Eric Plunk. On the same day, the Yankees trade C Rick Cerone to the Braves for P Brian Fisher.