A well-traveled veteran third baseman, Eddie Mayo found a home in Detroit after being traded from the Athletics in 1944. Moved to second base he played in all 154 of the regularly scheduled games in '44 and scored a career-high 76 runs. A lined drive hitter, he batted a career-best .285, with 24 doubles, and hit a career-high 10 homers in 501 at-bats for the 1945 World Champion Tigers, - lining 7-hits in 28 at-bats and scoring 4 runs in the World Series. Mayo anchored second base in Tigerland until he retired after the 1948 season... Edward Mayo career: .252 BA, 119Ds, 16Ts, 26Hr, 350 Runs, 287 RBIs, 759 hits in 3,013 at-bats in 834 games... baseballhistorian.com |