"Detroit Tigers" Steve Demeter Hand Signed 3X5 Card Signature Auctions LOA

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"Detroit Tigers" Steve Demeter Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
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Stephen Demeter
(January 27, 1935 – February 3, 2013) was an American professional baseball player and
scout
. He played in
Major League Baseball
as a
third baseman
for two seasons. Demeter played for the
Detroit Tigers
in 1959. Prior to the 1960 season he was traded to the
Cleveland Indians
for
Norm Cash
. The trade turned out to be one of the most lop-sided trades in Major League Baseball history, as Demeter played only four games for the Indians before being returned to the minor leagues, from which he never returned.
Cash went on to win the 1961 AL batting championship and was one of the top sluggers of the 1960s, hitting 377 career home runs.
Demeter was a fixture of the
Rochester Red Wings
teams of the mid- to late 1960s, hitting 272 minor league home runs in his long career, and has been inducted into both the Rochester Red Wings Hall of Fame, in 1990, and the
International League Hall of Fame
, in 2009. He served one year (in
1985
) as a
coach
with the MLB
Pittsburgh Pirates
, working at first base through June 13, and then as bench coach, and also managed for nine seasons in the Pirates'
farm system
, at the helm of the
Sherbrooke Pirates
(1972),
Salem Pirates
(1973; 1976–77),
Charleston Charlies
(1974–75),
Shreveport Captains
(1978), and
Buffalo Bisons
(1979–80). He also was a roving instructor and scout for the Bucs.