finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1980 right cortland , new york 1971 october 5 .264 102 383 third baseman new york yankees batting average home runs runs batted in september 3 24 september 1948 eric soderholm
 minnesota twins eric soderholm right
eric soderholm

eric thane soderholm -lrb- born september 24 , 1948 -rrb- is a former major league baseball third baseman who played for the minnesota twins , chicago white sox , texas rangers , and new york yankees from 1971 to 1980 .
soderholm was selected with the 1st overall selection in the secondary phase of the 1968 free agent draft by the twins .
soderholm won the twins regular job at third base in 1974 and had two solid seasons as their starter .
he then injured his knee and missed the entire 1976 campaign .
the white sox took a gamble and signed soderholm as a free agent in november 1976 .
the move paid off as soderholm responded with a career year in 1977 , hitting .280 and slugging 25 home runs .
soderholm stroked 16 of his 25 homers after the all-star break to help keep the south side hitmen , as the sox were fondly known that year , in the al west pennant race into september .
soderholm was named the al comeback player of the year by the sporting news after the 1977 campaign .
soderholm followed up his comeback year by bashing another 20 home runs in 1978 for the white sox .
during the 1979 season , soderholm was dealt to the texas rangers in exchange for ed farmer .
soderholm was dealt again after the 1979 season to the new york yankees where he finished out his playing career as a part-time designated hitter .
he was invited to chicago cubs spring training in 1982 , but his after many surgeries his beat-up knees could no longer handle the stress of everyday playing .
after retiring from baseball in early 1982 , cubs gm dallas green hired soderholm to scout american league teams for the cubs .
at the same time , soderholm started his eric soderholm -lrb- youth -rrb- baseball camps , which led to him becoming a private hitting instructor .
eric also went on to own a healing arts center , in willowbrook , illinois , a western suburb of chicago .
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