Career
In 2016, at age 90 and in his 69th season in organized baseball, he was slated to serve as a scout and special assistant to the general manager of the Atlanta Braves. Giordano is also a former Major League Baseball infielder, scout, and scouting and farm system director, and minor league manager. Giordano was born in Newark, New Jersey.
Nicknamed "T-Bone", as a player he stood 6 feet (18 metres) tall and weighed 175 pounds (79 kg) and threw and batted right-handed.
Apart from an 11-game trial with the 1953 Philadelphia Athletics, when he batted.175 with seven hits (four for extra bases), he spent his entire uniformed career in the minors. In 1956 he became a playing manager for the Milwaukee Braves" organization, then returned to the Athletics (based by then in Kansas City) 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. Since 1976 he has been a senior scouting or player development executive or assistant to the general manager for the Orioles, Indians (1987–2000) and Texas Rangers (2001-2015).
He was named Major League Baseball"s East Coast Scout of the Year in 2007 in a vote of his peers.