Education
Heep played baseball for, and graduated from, Lee High School in San Antonio.
Heep played baseball for, and graduated from, Lee High School in San Antonio.
Heep played for five different ballclubs during his 13-year career: the Houston Astros (1979–1982), New York Mets (1983–1986), Los Angeles Dodgers (1987–1988), Boston Red Sox (1989–1990), and Atlanta Braves (1991). Heep played for two different World Series champions: the New York Mets in 1986, and the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1988. Heep played for Saint Mary"s University in San Antonio where he was twice an All-American, in 1976 and 1978, as a pitcher.
Originally drafted by the Houston Astros in the 1979 Major League Baseball Draft, he would compile a.331 batting average, 23 home runs and 108 RBIs in a little over a year in the minors to earn his first major league call up.
His major league debut came on August 31, 1979 against the New York Mets. He would remain with the Astros through the end of the season, compiling just a.143 average and two runs batted in.
Danny Heep was the 4000th strikeout victim to Nolan Ryan on July 11, 1985. Currently, Heep is the head coach for the National Collegiate Athletic Association Incarnate Word Cardinals baseball team in San Antonio.
In 2014, they became a Division I program in the Southland Conference.
At Saint Mary"s he earned his bachelor"s degree in physical education, and he is a member of that school"s Athletic Hall of Fame.