finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1962 right 15 december 2011 costa mesa , california oakland , california 1952 september 30 .260 64 350 third baseman los angeles dodgers batting average home runs runs batted in may 2 18 october 1931 andy carey
 new york yankees andy carey right
andy carey

andrew arthur carey -lrb- october 18 , 1931 -- december 15 , 2011 -rrb- was born in oakland , california and was a major league third baseman for the new york yankees -lrb- 1952 -- 1960 -rrb- , and three other major league teams from 1960 to 1962 .
carey also balked at a trade which would have sent him from the chicago white sox to the philadelphia phillies in 1962 .
he batted and threw right-handed .
carey ended his career on september 30 , 1962 with the los angeles dodgers .
in an 11-year career , he had a .260 batting average , with 64 home runs , and 350 rbis .
he had 741 career hits .
carey led the league in triples in 1955 with 11 .
he finished his career with 38 triples .
while playing for the yankees in the 1956 world series , carey twice helped preserve the only perfect world series game , pitched by don larsen against the dodgers on oct 8 , 1956 .
in the second inning , the dodgers ' jackie robinson smacked a shot between third and short that carey knocked down , allowing yankees shortstop gil mcdougald to pick up the ball and nip robinson at first .
in the eighth , he robbed gil hodges by snaring a low line drive that seemed headed for left field .
carey died on december 15 , 2011 of lewy body dementia .
