Bill Krueger Autographs
William Culp Krueger (born April 24, 1958) is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher, who played from 1983 to 1995 for eight teams. He pitched for the Oakland A's, Los Angeles Dodgers, Milwaukee Brewers, Seattle Mariners (twice), Minnesota Twins, Montreal Expos, Detroit Tigers, and San Diego Padres.
After graduating from McMinnville High School in 1975, McMinnville, Oregon, Krueger began classes at the University of Portland on a basketball scholarship, where he was a four year starter and shared the backcourt with Darwin Cook who played 8 seasons in the National Basketball Association. Teaming with All-Americans Darwin Cook, Rick Raivio and Jose Slaughter, the Pilots averaged 18 wins a season his last 3 years there and beat two teams that ranked #1 in the country (San Francisco in 1978 and Oregon State in 1979). Bill, a three year captain, received the Thomas A. Fagan Award after his senior year. He began playing 1st base for the Pilots' baseball team in his sophomore year in 1977. A 3 year starter for the Pilots, Krueger was the team's most valuable player in 1977–78. In 1979–80, the Pilots set a school record for wins in a season. Six players were drafted off of that team including Ken Dayley, the #3 player selected in the 1980 MLB draft. Dayley had a successful big league career and was a key bullpen member of the St. Louis Cardinals National League Championship team in 1985. In 1980, Krueger was signed by the Oakland Athletics on July 12 as an undrafted amateur free agent and assigned to the Medford A's of the short-season single-A Northwest League despite only pitching 4 innings in college. Although he went winless for Medford in seven starts that year, he struck out 48 batters, recorded a complete game, and a save. He continued to make his way through the A's minor league system for the next two years, being called up to Double-A West Haven in 1981. In 1982, Bill had a breakout season in West Haven, going 15–9 with a 2.83 earned run average with 167 strikeouts in 181 innings pitched. The West Haven club won the Eastern League Championship and Krueger made the AA All-Star Team.
Krueger made his major league debut on April 10, 1983, as the A's starter for the sixth game of the season. Facing the California Angels, Krueger pitched 7 innings and gave up 4 runs in the Oakland Coliseum. Although Angels Brian Downing singled against him to lead off the game, Krueger got veteran right fielder Juan Beníquez to hit into a 4–6–3 double play. Bill went 7–6 in 16 starts for the A's in 1983, before an elbow injury ended his season. Before being traded to the Dodgers midway through the 1987 season, Bill posted a 27–31 record with a 4.69 earned run average.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Bill Krueger (A'S BILL KRUEGER AUTO SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED BASEBALL) was sold in August 2012 for $55.00 while the cheapest item (OAKLAND A'S GREAT BILL KRUEGER SIGNED OFFICIAL BASEBALL WITH COA.) found a new owner for $0.95 in February 2012. The month with the most items sold (18) was February 2026 with an average selling price of $5.95 for an autographed item of Bill Krueger. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in August 2012 with $29.13 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $0.95 was February 2012. In average, an autographed item from Bill Krueger is worth $3.98.
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