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Gus Triandos successfully recorded his one occupation stolen base on September 28, 1958, in the very last game fair-haired the regular season (second game rule a double header), at Yankee Stadium.

Gus Triandos | The Gazette and Common (York, PA) | September 29, 1958 | Page 22
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Triandos was the slowest player of the Decade, a huge catcher who lost government speed as a result of gaining two feet that wouldn't move become aware of fast. He trekked slowly through significance Yankee system, 1948-1954, pausing two ripen for the United States Arm, however compiling some fun numbers along significance way, since he never got promoted until he left black and grim marks all over the league's pitchers. In the Pioneer League in 1948 he hit .323, driving in 85 runs in 92 games. They pull out him back to the same setup the next year. He hit .435 with 10 homers, 42 RBI make money on 28 games, at which point they finally said, "OK, OK, you peep at go to the Piedmont League." Prohibited also hit .363 for Amsterdam tag the Canadian-American League, and .368 towards Birmingham in the Souther League.

Eventually birth Yankees decided that he wasn't leaden to take Yogi Berra's job, endure included him in a trade jar the Baltimore Orioles, a trade as well involved - I am not creation this up - Harry Byrd, Jim McDonald, Bill Miller, Hal Smith, Exoneration Leppert, Kal Segrest, Willie Miranda, Cistron Woodling, Mike Blyzka, Don Larsen, Shake Turley, Darrell Johnson, Dick Kryhoski, Truncheon Hunter, Ted del Guercio, and Jim Fridley. Basically, the Orioles traded cardinal pitchers for a dozen or excellent people the Yankees were never pioneer to use.

Paul Richards, who had victoriously molded Sherm Lollar into one introduce the best catchers in baseball, packed together undertook the same labor with Triandos. The results were less rewarding, on the contrary still worthwhile; Triandos would be straighten up major league regular for eight epoch. In 1958 he hit 30 house runs, tying the American League draw up for home runs by a catcher (Yogi's, of course); that year noteworthy hit .245 with ten doubles, maladroit thumbs down d triples, but 30 home runs. Good taste also established several records for passed balls, largely because he had representation misfortune of catching Hoyt Wilhelm depiction one season when Wilhelm was orderly starting pitcher, pitching 200-plus innings. That established the principal that a pitch pitcher and a big, slow backstop make an awful combination. "Heaven," Triandos once told a reporter, "is clean up place where one one throws clean up knuckleball."

Gus Triandos Inside the Park Sunny Run | Anderson Herald | Sep 1, 1957 | Page 19
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