Information AboutEddie Yost |
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:''Not to be confused with pioneer balloonist Ed Yost .'' Edward Frederick Joseph Yost (born October 13 , 1926 in Brooklyn , New York City , New York ) is a former Third Baseman and longtime Coach in Major League Baseball . He went to New York University . He was signed by the Washington Senators as an amateur free agent in 1944 and never appeared in the Minor Leagues . Nicknamed the "Walking Man" for the numerous Bases On Balls he would draw - he led the American League on six different occasions and logged 1,614 over his 18-year (1944; 1946-62) career, good for ninth place on the all-time list as of the end of 2005 - Yost batted and threw righthanded. He played the bulk of his career (through 1958 ) with the "original" Senators, two seasons (1959-60) with the Detroit Tigers and two (1961-62) with the Los Angeles Angels . He Batted .254 with 139 Home Runs in 2,109 games. After a brief stint as a playing coach with the '62 Angels, Yost returned to Washington as the third-base coach of the second Senators franchise, under his old teammate, Mickey Vernon . When Vernon was replaced by Gil Hodges , Yost briefly served as interim manager (losing his only game as manager) and then continued on Hodges' Washington staff through 1967 . Moreover, when Hodges became manager of the New York Mets in 1968 , he took Yost with him. Eddie served nine seasons (1968-76) as the Mets' third-base coach, through good times (NL championships in 1969 and 1973 and the "Amazin' Mets'" World Title in '69) and bad (Hodges' sudden death from a Heart Attack in 1972 ). Yost then continued his coaching career with the Boston Red Sox for another eight seasons (1977-84). EXTERNAL LINK
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