Please answer the following question: Facts:   - finalteam: philadelphia athletics    - finalyear: 1953    - statlabel: batting average home runs runs batted in    - position: second baseman    - statvalue: .175 2 5    - throws: right    - debutteam: philadelphia athletics    - bats: right    - debutdate: september 11      - birth date: 9 october 1925    - finaldate: september 26    - name: tommy giordano    - birth place: newark , new jersey    - debutyear: 1953   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of tommy giordano .
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thomas arthur giordano -lrb- born october 9 , 1925 , in newark , new jersey -rrb- is an american professional baseball front-office executive .in , at age 89 and in his 68th season in organized baseball , he was slated to serve as senior advisor to the general manager of the texas rangers .giordano is also a former major league baseball infielder , scout , and scouting and farm system director , and minor league manager .as scouting and player development director of the baltimore orioles -lrb- 1976 -- 1987 -rrb- he drafted hall of fame shortstop cal ripken , jr. , and signed and developed other players who would help baltimore win the 1983 world series .nicknamed `` t-bone , '' giordano the player stood tall and weighed and threw and batted right-handed .apart from an 11-game trial with the 1953 philadelphia athletics , when he batted .175 with seven hits -lrb- four for extra bases -rrb- , he spent his entire uniformed career in the minors .in he became a playing manager for the milwaukee braves ' organization , then returned to the athletics -lrb- based by then in kansas city -rrb- two years later as a minor league manager .in 1960 , giordano became a scout , working for the athletics , cincinnati reds , cleveland indians , seattle pilots/milwaukee brewers and the orioles .he is a longtime associate of the late hank peters and current braves ' executive john hart .since 1976 , he has been a senior scouting or player development executive or assistant to the general manager for the orioles , indians -lrb- 1987 -- 2000 -rrb- and rangers -lrb- since 2001 -rrb- .he was named major league baseball 's east coast scout of the year in 2007 in a vote of his peers .