Bruce Egloff (Born April 10, 1965) is a former professional baseball pitcher in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He played at
East High School (Denver)
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,
Merced Junior College, and
UC-Santa Barbara
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, and was drafted by the
Cleveland Indians
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in 1986.
[Jim Benton. "Determined Egloff returns". ''Rocky Mountain News''. May 12, 1991.] Egloff pitched mostly in the minor leagues and he struggled with injuries throughout his career, including a three-times-torn rotator cuff
and a broken right hand.
[Paul Hoynes. "Bouncing back; Egloff hoping to stay healthy". ''The Plain Dealer''. March 14, 1992. 3D.] He missed the entire 1992 regular baseball season while recovering from surgery to fuse two of his cervical vertebrae.
[Lawrence Rocca. "Egloff overcomes injuries and odds with determination". ''Daily News of Los Angeles''. March 10, 1994. S10.]
After 1992, he appeared in the
California Angels
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minor league system but retired at the end of the 1993 season rather than undergo further surgery to prolong his playing career.
Egloff later worked as a minor-league pitching coach in the
Detroit Tigers
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organization.
[Transactions. ''New York Times''. May 12, 1994.]
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American expatriate baseball players in Canada
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Batavia Trojans players
Canton-Akron Indians players
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UC Santa Barbara Gauchos baseball players
Vancouver Canadians players
Waterloo Indians players
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