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Washington Senators (1944, 1946-1958)
Detroit Tigers (1959-1960)
Los Angeles Angels (1961-1962) |highlights=
American League All-Star: 1952
Led AL in Walks in 1950 (141), 1952 (129), 1953 (123), 1956 (151), 1959 (135) and 1960 (125)
Led AL in Times on Base in 1950 (318), 1959 (292) and 1960 (262)
Led AL in Doubles (36) in 1951
Led AL in Plate Appearances in 1952 (734)
Led AL in On-base percentage in 1959 (.435) and 1960 (.414)
Led AL in Runs (115) in 1959
Ranks 80th on MLB All-Time On-base percentage List (.394)
Ranks 10th on MLB All-Time Walks List (1,614)
Ranks 79th on MLB All-Time Times on Base List (3,576)
Holds Minnesota Twins single season records for Walks (151 in 1956) and Times on Base (318 in 1950) }}

Edward Frederick Joseph Yost (born October 13, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York) is a former third baseman and longtime coach in Major League Baseball. He went to New York University. He was signed by the Washington Senators as an amateur free agent in 1944 and never appeared in the minor leagues. During his career, he batted .254 with 139 home runs in 2,109 games.
   Nicknamed the "Walking Man" for the numerous bases on balls he'd draw—he led the American League on six different occasions and logged 1,614 over his 18-year (1944; 1946–62) career, good for ninth place on the all-time list as of the end of 2005—Yost batted and threw righthanded. He played the bulk of his career (through 1958) with the "original" Senators. On December 6, 1958, Yost was traded to the Detroit Tigers so the Senators could make room for their up-and-coming thirdbaseman, Harmon Killebrew.
   Yost then spent two seasons (1959–60) with the Detroit Tigers and two (1961–62) with the Los Angeles Angels. While with the Angels during their inaugural season, Yost earned the distinction of being the first Angels player to appear in a major league game—leading off in the first Angels game, at Baltimore on April 11, 1961.
   After a brief stint as a playing coach with the '62 Angels, Yost returned to Washington as the third-base coach of the second Senators franchise, under his old teammate, Mickey Vernon. When Vernon was replaced by Gil Hodges, Yost briefly served as interim manager (losing his only game as manager) and then continued on Hodges' Washington staff through 1967. Moreover, when Hodges became manager of the New York Mets in 1968, he took Yost with him. Eddie served nine seasons (1968–76) as the Mets' third-base coach, through good times (NL championships in 1969 and 1973 and the "Amazin' Mets'" world title in '69) and bad (Hodges' sudden death from a heart attack in 1972). Yost then continued his coaching career with the Boston Red Sox for another eight seasons (1977–84).

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