Erik Daniel Pappas is a former professional baseball

Baseball

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 player who played for the Chicago Cubs

Chicago Cubs

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 and St. Louis Cardinals

St. Louis Cardinals

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. He appeared in 8 games for the Cubs during the 1991 season and appeared in a total of 97 games for the Cardinals during 1993 and 1994 seasons. During the 1993 season, he had one home run

Home run

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 and 28 RBIs

Run batted in

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A 6'0" catcher, Pappas played in a total of 104 games with a .242 batting average

Batting average

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 in his Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball

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 career. Pappas, who is of Greek

Greeks

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 ancestry, was selected to play for the Greek national baseball team

Greece national baseball team

-2004 Olympics:The first time that Greece put together a national team that got any recognition in the baseball world was during the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. Greece, as the host country, was faced with the dilemma that the actual baseball talent pool in the country was very small, and what...

 in the 2004 Summer Olympics

2004 Summer Olympics

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 in Athens

Athens

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, Greece

Greece

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Pappas currently resides in the Beverly neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois.

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