Bill Plummer
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"William Francis Plummer" is a former catcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds and Seattle Mariners.

Plummer attended Anderson Union High School in Anderson, California. He was signed by the St. Louis Cardinals on April 25, 1965 as an amateur free agent. He played three years in the Cardinals' minor league system, then was drafted by the Cubs on November 28, 1967 in the Rule 5 Draft.

He spent nearly all of 1968 in the minors, making his major league debut at age 21 on April 19, 1968 with the Cubs in a 9-2 road loss to the Cardinals. Pinch-hitting for Chuck Hartenstein, he struck out against Hal Gilson. He had only one more at-bat that season and played in just two games.

He played in the minors for all of the 1969 season. He was traded to the Reds on January 9, 1969 and again played most of the season in the minors, although he was called up to the Reds long enough to play in four games with nine plate appearances, including his first career hit.

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We got what we basically needed. We got a great pitching performance from Mock to keep us in the game and figured out how to get some runs late and hold them off late.

It's worse than we originally thought. Hopefully he's ready to play by the playoffs.

He'll be missed. He's played well for us.

He felt he beat the runner, but I felt the runner was there first. He may have been a little upset he didn't get there in time, but he came back and finished strong and the defense played behind him. He did a great job.

A home run is a home run and you don't want to give up a cheap one. That definitely wasn't a cheap one. There was about a 330-mile-per-hour wind and he hit it good. The ball just jumps here.

At least tonight we were able to claw back into a game. We haven't been able to do that at all this year. We're a young team, so we have to try and clear one hurdle at a time.

Shultz came in and got that big double play ball for us. That was huge.

It's nice to see Jesus get a big hit and Frazier had a big hit in that inning, too. It's good to get a few more cylinders going anyway.

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