SAN FRANCISCO -- Longtime baseball adviser, major league coach and former player Joe Amalfitano is calling it a career following 67 years in professional baseball.
The San Francisco Giants announced Sunday that Amalfitano is retiring just shy of his 87th birthday Jan. 23 after 30 years and six different stints with the club.
Amalfitano, a career. 244 hitter with nine homers and 123 RBI over 10 big league seasons, had most recently been Giants special assistant of player development and spent 16 years in San Francisco's baseball operations department.
He served as a senior advisor to baseball operations for the Dodgers from 2002-04 after concluding his major league coaching career with Los Angeles as the late Tommy Lasorda's third base coach from 1983-98.