The New York Giants were able to trade Alvin Dark to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1956 for Red Schoendienst thanks to the steady, extremely skilled shortstop Ed Bressoud. Only two of his six seasons with the Giants were spent as their regular shortstop, but he had three good seasons with the Boston Red Sox after modifying his swing to the left field wall at Fenway Park, where he hit 20 home runs for the Red Sox in 1963.
Bressoud’s career came to an end as a utility player for the Cardinals in the 1967 World Series against the Red Sox after Rico Petrocelli’s 1965 debut rendered him expendable.
After retiring from playing, he worked as a minor league manager and scout for the California Angels.
Eleanor Griesser: Who is Ed Bressoud’s first wife?
On June 6, 1953, Bressoud wed Eleanor Griesser, his high school sweetheart. The brain tumor that claimed Eleanor’s life on April 29, 1958. Carol Mathews and Bressoud were wed on February 7, 1959. On July 18, 2023, one of Bressoud’s kids made the announcement that his father had passed away the previous week as a result of cerebellar ataxi