Tommy Giordano
Tommy Giordano | |
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Second baseman | |
Born: Newark, New Jersey | October 9, 1925|
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
MLB debut | |
September 11, 1953, for the Philadelphia Athletics | |
Last MLB appearance | |
September 26, 1953, for the Philadelphia Athletics | |
MLB statistics | |
Batting average | .175 |
Home runs | 2 |
Runs batted in | 5 |
Teams | |
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Thomas Arthur Giordano (born October 9, 1925) is an American professional baseball front-office executive. In 2015, at age 89 and in his 68th season in organized baseball, he was slated to serve as senior advisor to the general manager of the Texas Rangers.
Giordano is also a former Major League Baseball infielder, scout, and scouting and farm system director, and minor league manager. As scouting and player development director of the Baltimore Orioles (1976–87) he drafted Hall of Fame shortstop Cal Ripken, Jr., and signed and developed other players who would help Baltimore win the 1983 World Series.[1]
Biography
Giordano was born in Newark, New Jersey. Nicknamed "T-Bone", as a player he stood 6 feet (1.8 metres) tall and weighed 175 pounds (79 kg) and threw and batted right-handed. Apart from an 11-game trial with the 1953 Philadelphia Athletics, when he batted .175 with seven hits (four for extra bases), he spent his entire uniformed career in the minors.[2] In 1956 he became a playing manager for the Milwaukee Braves' organization, then returned to the Athletics (based by then in Kansas City) two years later as a minor league manager. In 1960 Giordano became a scout, working for the Athletics, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians, Seattle Pilots/Milwaukee Brewers and the Orioles. He was a longtime associate of Hank Peters and Braves' executive John Hart.
Since 1976 he has been a senior scouting or player development executive or assistant to the general manager for the Orioles, Indians (1987–2000) and Rangers (since 2001).[3] He was named Major League Baseball's East Coast Scout of the Year in 2007 in a vote of his peers.[4]
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