Damon Berryhill
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Damon Scott Berryhill (born December 3, 1963 in South Laguna, California) is a former Major League Baseball catcher who played ten seasons for the Chicago Cubs, the Atlanta Braves, the Boston Red Sox, the Cincinnati Reds, and the San Francisco Giants from 1987 to 1997. He threw right and was a switch hitter.
Berryhill was drafted as the fourth overall pick of the 1984 Major League Baseball Draft and was a backup for most of his career. He was the most commonly used starting catcher for the division-winning 1989 Chicago Cubs.
He is best known for hitting the winning three run home run for the Atlanta Braves in Game 1 of the 1992 World Series. The Braves would later lose the series in six games.