Joe Pignatano passes
Posted: Fri May 27, 2022 1:41 am
I'm not old enough to remember him, I just happened to read the story about him in Yahoo sports. What an interesting read!
Without going into the whole article, Joe was a catcher with the Dodgers, and played in the last game at Ebbet's Field. He went to Los Angeles with the team, and won a World Series ring in 1959.
The Dodgers needed some additional cash to complete Dodger Stadium, and sold him to the Kansas City A's for $50,000, though the story say the Dodgers claim the amount was less. How many guys can say they were traded for a stadium?
His last big league at bat ended with him hitting into a triple play!
He went into coaching, and won another ring with the 1969 Miracle Mets as the bullpen coach. He spotted a wild tomato growing, and grew tomatoes in the bullpen!
Also interesting, the A's traded him to San Francisco for Jose Tartabull, the father of Danny Tartabull, who would play for Kansas City.
I know I could have put this in the thread that I believe is still out there, but thought this was just too interesting to dig that thread up.
https://sports.yahoo.com/former-catcher ... 44294.html
Without going into the whole article, Joe was a catcher with the Dodgers, and played in the last game at Ebbet's Field. He went to Los Angeles with the team, and won a World Series ring in 1959.
The Dodgers needed some additional cash to complete Dodger Stadium, and sold him to the Kansas City A's for $50,000, though the story say the Dodgers claim the amount was less. How many guys can say they were traded for a stadium?
His last big league at bat ended with him hitting into a triple play!
He went into coaching, and won another ring with the 1969 Miracle Mets as the bullpen coach. He spotted a wild tomato growing, and grew tomatoes in the bullpen!
Also interesting, the A's traded him to San Francisco for Jose Tartabull, the father of Danny Tartabull, who would play for Kansas City.
I know I could have put this in the thread that I believe is still out there, but thought this was just too interesting to dig that thread up.
https://sports.yahoo.com/former-catcher ... 44294.html
