- Was a career .300 hitter.
- Diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1994.
- Resigned as hitting coach of the minor league's Reading Phillies in 2000 to take a broadcasting job with FOX Sport Net.
- Traded his uniform number 28 to new teammate Mitch Williams in 1991 for $10 and two cases of beer, shortly after a Toronto Blue Jay asked his new teammate for $25,000 to trade numbers.
- Wife Melissa McLoughlin was 1999 Miss New Jersey USA.
- Was a leader of the 1993 Philadelphia Phillies team which made it to the World Series.
- Ranks 70th on Major League Career Leaders List in On-base percentage between Hall of Famers Earle Combs and Richie Ashburn.
- Member of 1993 Philadelphia Phillies National League Championship Team.
- Was born in Charleston, West Virginia - but raised in Keyser, West Virginia. Played baseball for Keyser High School.
- Inducted into the Potomac State College Athletic Hall of Fame in 1988 (inaugural class).
- John Kruk plays in the major league baseball from 1986 to 1995. During a game in 1995, he choose to retire. He plays for San Diego Padres, the Philadelphia Phillies and the Chicago White Sox.
- After his rookie season with the San Diego Padres in 1987, he rented a house in San Diego with a high school classmate, Roy Plummer, and Vernon Hafer, an acquaintance of Plummer's. The three socialized and partied together with Plummer always picking up the check. Unbeknownst to Kruk, who moved out in November 1987 to play winter ball in Mexico, Plummer and Hafer were moonlighting as armed robbers. The FBI approached Kruk in March of 1988 during spring training with photos of Plummer taken during a bank robbery. Kruk lived in fear of reprisal for most of the 1988 season until Plummer and Hafer were apprehended in September of 1988.
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