[7] Post broke into professional baseball as a minor league pitcher in 1946[7] and was converted to an outfielder in 1949, the year of his majors debut.

[8] Post spent time in both the minor and major leagues for the next two years before finally being permanently called up to Cincinnati in 1954.

Major League Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick intervened, removing Bell and Post from the starting lineup and replacing them with Hank Aaron and Willie Mays.

[9][10] On April 14, 1961, Post hit one of the longest recorded home runs in baseball history at Busch Stadium in St. Louis.

The mammoth blast was estimated at 569 ft. [11] Post is also noted as the man who ended Aaron's record-setting stint on the 1950s Home Run Derby show.