About Terry Puhl
Terry Stephen Puhl (born July 8, 1956) is a Canadian former professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as an outfielder from 1977 to 1991, most prominently as a member of the Houston Astros, where he helped the franchise win its first-ever National League West division title and postseason berth in 1980. He also played for the Kansas City Royals. A National League (NL) All-Star in 1978, Puhl also won the first-ever Tip O'Neill Award in 1984. He excelled defensively as an outfielder, committing just 18 errors in 1,300 career games. Puhl's.993 fielding percentage is the best among outfielders in Astros history and ranks 8th all-time among all outfielders in NL history. Following his playing career, Puhl served as the head coach of the University of Houston–Victoria's baseball team and the manager of the Canada national baseball team. He was inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame in 1994 and, into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 1995. He was inducted into the Houston Astros Hall of Fame in 2022. In his first major league game, on July 12, Puhl entered as a defensive replacement for Fuller. In the 1980 National League Championship Series against the Philadelphia Phillies, Puhl set a then NL-championship series record with a.526 batting average in a losing cause, the best performance ever by a hitter in a play-off series at the time.
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