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Robert Eugene Dernier (born January 5, 1957) is an American former professional
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who played in
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(MLB) for the
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and
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in the 1980s. The fleet-afoot 1984 Gold Glove Award winner was also known as "the Deer", to fans at Chicago's
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. Dernier experimented as a switch hitter during part of the 1983 season with Philadelphia.


Biography

After graduating from high school in
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, Dernier attended Longview Community College, where he played baseball and majored in journalism. He led the minor leagues three times in stolen bases—77 with Peninsula in 1979, 71 with Reading in 1980, and 71 for Oklahoma City in 1981. Dernier was traded along with
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from the
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to the Cubs for Bill Campbell and
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on March 27, 1984. He was the leadoff hitter for the Cubs' 1984
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division championship team. Hall of Fame second baseman
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batted second and the lead-off pair was dubbed "The Daily Double" by Cubs announcer
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. Dernier was a member of the 1983 Phillies team, which won the
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pennant but lost the
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to the
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, and the 1984 Cubs team which won the NL East but lost in the playoffs to the
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. He homered leading off the first inning of Game 1 in the 1984 National League Championship Series to kick off a 13–0 victory for the Cubs, but they dropped the series, three games to two. From the mid-1990s through at least 2004, Dernier was an instructor at a baseball training academy in Kansas City. Dernier was named the Cubs major league first base coach on August 23, 2010, after serving as the team's minor league outfield and base-running coordinator since 2007. He remained a Cub coach until the end of the 2011 season.


See also

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