Tom Harmon (baseball)
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| Born: December 16, 1948 Lubbock, Texas, U.S. | |
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Thomas Harold Harmon (born December 16, 1948) is an American
minor league catcher and manager and Major League coach. He was assistant coach of the University of Texas Longhorns men's varsity baseball team from 1989 to 2012.[1]
As a player, Harmon batted left-handed and threw right-handed; he stood 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) tall and weighed 185 lb (84 kg). He graduated from
at bats for Jacksonville that season.[2]
Although he never reached the Major Leagues, Harmon spent all or parts of seven seasons at the Triple-A level, and he finished his career in the
runs batted in.[3] He then coached and managed in the Phillies' organization, where he won the 1979 Northwest League championship, from 1978 through 1981. In 1982, he spent a year at the major-league level as bullpen coach on the staff of Chicago Cubs manager Lee Elia. Like Harmon, Elia was a veteran of the Philadelphia organization brought to Chicago by the team's new general manager, Dallas Green
.
Harmon returned to his native
Midland Cubs and, after a period in private business, joined the Longhorns' coaching staff in 1989.[4]
References
- ^ Texas Longhorns baseball official site
- ^ a b Howe News Bureau, 1983 Chicago Cubs Organization Book. St. Petersburg, Florida: The Baseball Blue Book, 1983
- ^ Baseball Reference
- ^ Texas Longhorns baseball official site