finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1963 left woodruff , south carolina 1958 august 6 .245 33 147 catcher cleveland indians average home runs rbi april 20 27 february 1933 sammy taylor -lrb- baseball -rrb-
 chicago cubs sammy taylor right
sammy taylor -lrb- baseball -rrb-

samuel douglas `` sammy '' taylor -lrb- born february 27 , 1933 in woodruff , south carolina -rrb- is a former major league baseball catcher who played from 1958 to 1963 for the chicago cubs , new york mets , cincinnati reds and cleveland indians .
signed by the milwaukee braves in 1956 , taylor was traded with taylor phillips to the cubs for eddie haas , don kaiser and bob rush on december 5 , 1957 .
he made his big league debut on april 20 , 1958 against the st. louis cardinals .
appearing as a pinch hitter for gene fodge , he drew a walk in his first plate appearance .
overall , taylor appeared in 96 games in 1958 , hitting .259 with 78 hits , six home runs and 36 rbi .
in 110 games in 1959 , taylor hit .269 with 13 home runs and 43 rbi in 110 games .
his 13 intentional walks were the fourth most that season .
taylor was involved in a rather peculiar situation in a game on june 30 of that year , between the st. louis cardinals and chicago cubs .
stan musial was at the plate , with a count of 3 -- 1 .
pitcher bob anderson 's next pitch was errant , evading taylor and rolling all the way to the backstop .
umpire vic delmore called ball four , however anderson and taylor contended that musial foul tipped the ball .
because the ball was still in play , and because delmore was embroiled in an argument with the catcher and pitcher , musial took it upon himself to try for second base .
seeing that musial was trying for second , alvin dark ran to the backstop to retrieve the ball .
the ball wound up in the hands of field announcer pat pieper , but dark ended up getting it back anyway .
absentmindedly , however , delmore pulled out a new ball and gave it to taylor .
anderson finally noticed that musial was trying for second , took the new ball , and threw it to second baseman tony taylor .
to anderson 's disappointment , the ball flew over tony taylor 's head into the outfield .
dark , at the same time that anderson threw the new ball , threw the original ball to shortstop ernie banks .
musial , though , did not see dark 's throw and only noticed anderson 's ball fly over the second baseman 's head , so he tried to go to third base .
on his way there , he was tagged by banks , and after a delay he was ruled out .
taylor slumped in 1960 , hitting only .207 in 150 at-bats .
he lost his starting catching role that year and played in only 74 games .
he was the team 's second most used catcher in 1961 , behind dick bertell .
in 1961 , he hit .238 with eight home runs and 23 rbi in 235 at-bats -lrb- 89 games -rrb- .
he began the 1962 season with the cubs , hitting .133 in 15 at-bats with them .
on april 26 , he was traded to the mets for bob smith .
in 68 games with the mets , he hit .222 with three home runs and 20 rbi .
overall , he hit .214 in 173 at-bats that season .
in 1963 - his final season - taylor played for three different teams .
he began the year with the mets and hit .257 in 41 at-bats with them .
on july 1 , he was traded with charlie neal to the reds for another catcher , jesse gonder .
he played in three games for the reds , collecting no hits in six at-bats .
on august 1 , he was traded to the indians for gene green .
he collected three hits in 10 at-bats for the indians .
overall , he hit .235 with no home runs and seven rbi in 51 at-bats .
he played his final game on august 6 .
overall , taylor played six years in the majors , hitting .245 with 33 home runs and 147 rbi in 473 games .
