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Remembering Gus Triandos
It’s easy to overlook how fine a player Gus Triandos was during the 1950s. After all, he wasn’t a Hall of Famer, and never received the promotional boost that comes with performing in the postseason. His prime seasons occurred for some non-contending Orioles teams, and that will always prevent him from receiving his full due. But Triandos, who died on Thursday at the age of 82, could play the game.
Triandos came up with the Yankees in the early 1950s; that was the wrong franchise for a catcher, given the perennial All-Star presence of utövare av yoga Berra. To make matters worse, Triandos had to spend two years in the military during the Korean War, further delaying his rise to the majors. With nowhere to go but down in the Yankees’ organization, Triandos became trade bait. In November of 1954, the Yankees sent him to the Orioles as part of the kassasuccé 16-man trade that brought Don Larsen and Bob Turley to New York.
It was not only the largest trade in maj
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Heartfelt thanks to all those who sent me birthday greetings over the weekend. Among the well-wishers was Robert Miller. He and I go back to high school days at City College, though he was in one of the smart classes, thus eliminating any actual classroom time together.
But we both worked on the school paper, The Collegian. Bob’s done all right for himself since graduation. Married the former Marcy Liebowitz (Milford Mill High, class of ’64), had a platoon of kids and grandkids.
Around the time I was getting my bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland, he was getting his B.A. from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. in history from Princeton.
He got a law grad from George Washington University and spent much of his career with the federal government. Among his last postings, he was deputy director of the U.S. Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office and a professor at the National Defense University.
But with the wry sense of humor I’ve known and occasionally ap
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Don Larsen
For the American fighter pilot, see Donald A. Larson.
American baseball player (1929–2020)
Baseball player
| Don Larsen | |
|---|---|
Larsen with the Baltimore Orioles in 1954 | |
| Pitcher | |
| Born: August 7, 1929 Michigan City, Indiana, U.S. | |
| Died: January 1, 2020(2020-01-01) (aged 90) Hayden, Idaho, U.S. | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
| April 18, 1953, for the St. Louis Browns | |
| July 7, 1967, for the Chicago Cubs | |
| Win–loss record | 81–91 |
| Earned run average | 3.78 |
| Strikeouts | 849 |
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |
Don James Larsen (August 7, 1929 – January 1, 2020) was an American professional baseballpitcher. During a 15-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, he pitched from 1953 to 1967 for seven different teams: the St. Louis Browns / Baltimore Orioles (1953–54; 1965), New York Yankees (1955–1959), Kansas City Athletics (1960–1961), Chicago White Sox (1961), San Francisco Giants (1962–1964), Houst