"Gus broke two of his own Oriole records last season, topping the modern Baltimore runs scored (47) and home run marks (12) set by him in 1955, with 21 round-trippers in '56.
Starting in baseball in '48 as a Yankee farmhand, Gus worked up through the minors until he played at Birmingham in '53, where his amazing .368 batting mark won him a ticket to New York. After two trials with the Yankees, he was traded to the Orioles."
-1957 Topps No. 156
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