 He was traded to the Baltimore Orioles in June 1955, and then retired as a player at the end of the season at the age of 38.In a thirteen-year major league career, Majeski played in 1,069 games, accumulating 956 hits in 3,421 at bats for a .279 career batting average along with 57 home runs and 501 runs batted in.In , Majeski set a then-record .988 fielding percentage, still the fifth highest single-season average for third basemen in major league baseball history.