...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.)