How he got from the Giants to the Cardinals is described thusly on his Baseball Reference page...
- Before 1951 Season: Sent from the New York Yankees to the New York Giants in an unknown transaction.
- April, 1960: Purchased by Portland (PCL) from the San Francisco Giants.
- Before 1961 Season: Obtained by the St. Louis Cardinals from Portland (PCL) as part of a minor league working agreement.
We did some looking and found this from the Panama American of Apr. 28, 1959...
“The San Francisco Giants and Chicago Cubs exchanged
farmhands Sunday with the Giants sending outfielder Don Taussig to Fort Worth
in the American Association and the Cubs sending pitcher Marcelino Solis to
Phoenix of the Pacific Coast League”
No mention of this deal on either Taussig or Solis' pages. So how did Taussig get to Charleston? Can't find that yet. I DID find this odd note in the July 5, 1959 Sunday Gazette-Mail (Charleston WV)...
"Don Taussig had been traded to Corpus Christy (sp) for
Outfielder Jim Miller and Miller hadn't reported.”
Talking about why Charleston had been short-handed. Taussig stayed with Charleston so that deal must have been voided, Miller never went to Charleston and stayed in the minors for awhile.
Corpus Christi WAS a Giants AA team at the time. Somehow, Taussig gets back to the Giants at the end of the season: the Spokane Daily Chronicle of Oct 28, 1959 has him being outrighted to Tacoma by the Giants.
The Cardinals then purchase him from Tacoma as per the Eugene Register-Guard of April 12, 1960.
So there are a few tangles to unknot. I did see that Alex Cosmidis also played for both Charleston and Fort Worth in 1959, maybe they were dealt for each other....
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