Latest Player to make Wikipedia's List of the 125 oldest living MLB Players:Bill Virdon
Bill Virdon, who turned 88 in June is the latest addition to Wikipedia's list of the 125 oldest living major league ball players.
(Main list shows #s 1 to 100, but if you click on EDIT at top right of the page It will reveal another list that you can scroll down to #s 101 to 125.)
Between 1955 and 1965 (and with an activation from the coaching ranks in 1968) , Virdon hit .267 with 1,596 hits in 1,583 games for the
Cardinals and Pirates. He had 81 triples and 91 home runs and won
one Gold Glove Award as a Speedy Center Fielder for the Pirates in Pittsburgh's spacious
Forbes Field.. He strongly contributed to the Pirates upsetting the NY Yankees to win the 1960 World Series.
Virdon hit .319 one year and had several other solid years, but was never selected to play in the all-star game.
Later he managed the Pirates,Yankees and Astros, winning 995 games, compiling a .519 managerial winning percentage, winning
one division title for both the Pirates (1972) and Astros (1980), and having a near-miss with the Yankees, when the Baltimore Orioles eliminated
the Yankees from the A.L. East race on the penultimate day of the 1974 season.
The below image is Virdon's 1956 Topps baseball card (original in color, not b&w).
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