Tom Jordan had a career .337 minor league batting average but still was unable to parlay more than 101 plate appearances in the Major Leagues. Still technically a rookie at age 28, in a mostly back-up catcher role in 1948, he received only one at-bat with the Browns. Nevertheless Tom has a rich history, as both a player and gentleman farmer (only coaxed out of a two-year voluntary retirement from baseball in his twenties by Browns General Manager Bill DeWitt Sr.). Watch this fascinating video biography and plan a trip to St. Louis in 2018 to meet this riveting speaker and third-oldest living major-league player (behind his former teammate Chuck Stevens and Fred Caligiuri of the Philadelphia A's).
