Steve Yeager
| Steve Yeager | |||
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Steve Yeager signing autographs before the 2008 NLCS Game 3.
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| Los Angeles Dodgers – No. 7 | |||
| Catcher/Coach | |||
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Born: November 24, 1948 Huntington, West Virginia |
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| MLB debut | |||
| August 2, 1972, for the Los Angeles Dodgers | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| August 29, 1986, for the Seattle Mariners | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .228 | ||
| Home runs | 102 | ||
| Runs batted in | 410 | ||
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Stephen Wayne "Steve" Yeager (born November 24, 1948) is an American right-handed former professional baseball catcher. Yeager spent 14 of the 15 seasons of his Major League Baseball career, from 1972 through 1985, with the Los Angeles Dodgers. His last year, 1986, he played for the Seattle Mariners. As of 2012, Yeager was the Los Angeles Dodgers' Major League catching coach.
Yeager was born in Huntington, West Virginia. He attended Meadowdale High School in Dayton, Ohio. He is a cousin of the test pilot Chuck Yeager. Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley was the best man at his wedding. Yeager is Jewish, having converted to Judaism when his career was over.
Yeager hit two grand slams in a single game while playing for Meadowdale High School (Ohio) in Dayton, Ohio. He was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers on June 6, 1967, in the 4th round of the 1967 Major League Baseball draft. After one game with the rookie level Ogden Spikers of the Pioneer League, Yeager was sent to the Dodgers' Single-A affiliate, the Dubuque Packers of the Midwest League. The following season, in 1968, Yeager played 59 games for the Single-A Daytona Beach Dodgers of the Florida State League. In 1969, he played 22 games for the Bakersfield Blaze, the Dodgers' Single-A affiliate in the California League, where he threw out 26 runners from behind the plate.
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