![]() Triandos Drive in Timonium, Maryland is named in honor of the popular catcher. In later years, he lived in San Jose, California. Triandos served as a scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1973 to 1975. He and wife Evelyn had three children, son Gary Triandos and daughters Lori Luna and Tracey Hook. He was one of four children of Peter Triandos and Helen Mourgos, Greek immigrants to the U.S. Triandos's family origins are from Koroni, Messenia, Greece. In 1961, the reigning American League stolen base champion, Luis Aparicio, rated Triandos just below Earl Battey as the toughest catcher on which to attempt a stolen base. His 142 home runs hit as an Oriole player ranks him 13th highest in the team's history. Triandos was elected to the American League All-Star team for three consecutive years, in 1957, 19. Over his career, Triandos threw out 46.62% of the base runners who tried to steal a base on him, ranking him 6th on the all-time list. In 1957, he threw out 66.7% of the base runners trying to steal a base, the third highest single-season ratio in Major League history. Triandos led American League catchers twice in assists and in baserunners caught stealing. 988 fielding percentage in 168 games as a first baseman. 987 fielding percentage in 992 games as a catcher and, a. 244 career batting average along with 167 home runs, 608 runs batted in and a. In a 13-year major league career, Triandos played in 1,206 games, accumulating 954 hits in 3,907 at bats for a. He played in his final major league game at the age of 34 before being released by the Astros on August 20, 1965. His contract was purchased by the Houston Astros from the Philadelphia Phillies on June 14, 1965. As the Phillies' catcher, Triandos caught Bunning's perfect game against the New York Mets on June 21, 1964, thus becoming the first catcher in Major League history to catch no hitters in both the American and National Leagues. The following winter, he was traded along with Jim Bunning to the Philadelphia Phillies, where he again shared catching duties, this time with Clay Dalrymple. With the Tigers in 1963, he shared catching duties with Bill Freehan and led American League catchers with a. 169 in 63 games and was traded to the Detroit Tigers at the end of the year. In 1959, he hit 20 home runs by mid-season and was again selected to be the starting catcher for the American League in the 1959 All-Star Game, However, a hand injury meant that he only had 25 home runs for the entire season. He ended the season leading all American League catchers in putouts with 698, and tied Berra's American League record of 30 home runs by a catcher. Triandos had his best year in 1958, when he hit 16 home runs by mid-season to earn the starting catcher's role for the American League in the 1958 All-Star Game, breaking Yogi Berra's eight-year stranglehold on the position. That stolen base came on September 28, 1958, in the 9th inning of the last game of the season, at Yankee Stadium, off rookie pitcher Zach Monroe and catcher Darrell Johnson That accounts for his entire career, in which he had exactly one stolen base. As of 2021, he also holds the record for the most consecutive games without being caught stealing, 1,206. Īlthough perhaps the slowest runner in the league, Triandos once hit an inside-the-park home run. Triandos was behind the plate when Wilhelm threw a no hitter against the New York Yankees on September 20, 1958, the first no-hitter in Baltimore Orioles history, and also scored the only run of the game when he hit a home run in the eighth inning. Īs the Orioles' catcher, he used an outsized catcher's mitt designed by manager Paul Richards to handle the unpredictable knuckleball of Hoyt Wilhelm. Triandos was traded to the Baltimore Orioles in 1954 where he played mostly as a first baseman for his first two years with the team, before becoming the Orioles' regular catcher in 1957. He joined the Yankees' major league roster briefly as a 22-year-old in 1953, but was sent back to the minor leagues in 1954. #GUY TRIGAID USA FREE#Born in San Francisco, California, Triandos attended Mission High School and was signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1948. ![]()
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