Author Topic: Eddie Yost dies at 86  (Read 1261 times)

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Offline Ray D

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Re: Eddie Yost dies at 86
« Topic Start: October 19, 2012, 09:40:52 AM »
...and, I think he should have been hired full-time to manage a ball club.

On those grim teams around 1955 - 1958, Yost was one of the solid players we could be proud of. Yost, Pete Runnels, Mickey Vernon, and Roy Sievers...plus Jim Lemon toward the end.

Well I started following in 1957, and I know that Runnels and Vernon were long gone by then.  I remember that nearly every team we played seem to have at least one great player where my dad would say "he used to be a Senator".   Runnels and Vernon for sure, but also Jackie Jensen, Early Wynn, Bob Porterfield, Jim Busby.  (And others that don't readily come to mind.)