Mack Daniel Sasser (born August 3, 1962 in Fort Gaines, Georgia) is a former professional baseball catcher, who played from 1987 to 1995 for the New York Mets, the San Francisco Giants, the Pittsburgh Pirates, and Seattle Mariners.
Sasser is known for the difficulty he regularly encountered in "double clutching" balls to the pitcher that had been thrown to him, although he performed competently as a catcher otherwise. He appeared in 534 games in ...
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Mack Daniel Sasser (born August 3, 1962 in Fort Gaines, Georgia) is a former professional baseball catcher, who played from 1987 to 1995 for the New York Mets, the San Francisco Giants, the Pittsburgh Pirates, and Seattle Mariners.
Sasser is known for the difficulty he regularly encountered in "double clutching" balls to the pitcher that had been thrown to him, although he performed competently as a catcher otherwise. He appeared in 534 games in his career, getting 317 hits with sixteen home runs, 156 RBI and a career .267 batting average.
Sasser played college baseball at Troy University and was drafted in the fifth round of the 1987 Major League Baseball Draft by the San Francisco Giants. He came up in the Major Leagues with the Giants on July 17, 1987 playing in two games before being traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates with cash for pitcher Don Robinson where he played 12 games for the remainder of the 1987 season.
On March 26, 1988, Sasser was traded to the New York Mets with...
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