He attended Point Park University before playing professionally from 1982 to 1985 for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Cincinnati Reds.
Stuper retired thirteen batters in a row, tying a rookie record set by Dickey Kerr for the White Sox in 1919.
A month after being released by the Expos in 1986, Stuper was hired as the head baseball coach at Butler County Community College.
He said he intended to coach at BCCC while working on his master's degree at Slippery Rock University.
[4] Stuper implemented lessons from his former Cardinals manager, Whitey Herzog, and oversaw aggressive Butler teams that set school records in runs and stolen bases.
[2] The following is a table of Stuper's yearly records as an NCAA Division I head baseball coach.