Eric Soderholm

Eric Soderholm

Infobox MLB retired
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name=Eric Soderholm
position=Third Baseman
bats=Right
throws=Right
birthdate=birth date and age|1948|9|24
debutdate=September 3
debutyear=by|1971
debutteam=Minnesota Twins
finaldate=October 5
finalyear=by|1980
finalteam=New York Yankees
stat1label=Batting average
stat1value=.264
stat2label=Home Runs
stat2value=102
stat3label=RBIs
stat3value=383
teams=
*Minnesota Twins (by|1971-by|1975)
*Chicago White Sox (by|1976-by|1977)
*Texas Rangers (by|1979)
*New York Yankees (by|1980)
highlights=
*TSN Comeback Player of the Year (AL): 1977

Eric Thane Soderholm (born September 24, 1948 in Cortland, New York) 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 (youth) Baseball Camps, which led to him becoming a private hitting instructor. He built a full-size batting cage in the back yard of his home. In 1985, Soderholm left the Cubs and started his own ticket agency, focusing not only on sports but entertainment and concerts, as well. He fought for passage of state legislation that made it legal to add a hefty "service charge" to the face price of resold tickets, which legitimized ticket scalpers with permanent offices. His younger brother Kurt, and later the middle brother Dale Soderholm (who also played in the Twins organization), helped him with ticket operations. Eric also went on to own a healing arts center, staffed by his daughter, Misty Dawn, in Hinsdale, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago. [http://soderworldwellness.stores.yahoo.net/index.html] His Son, Chad Eric owns two companies out of Lisle. ( another Western suburb.) He has 3 grandchildren.

ee also

* Chicago White Sox all-time roster


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