Eighty-seven years ago today, July 18, 1939, the Red Sox made a trade with the Brooklyn Dodgers that they surely came to regret. On that day, they sent the Louisville Colonels’ 21-year-old shortstop prospect named Harold (Pee Wee) Reese to the Dodgers for $35,000 and three minor leaguers…
Cardinals Trade Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown to the Cubs, 1903!
Brock for Broglio? Yeah, that was a pretty good deal…for the Cardinals, that is. Not so good for us Cub fans, however! But how about getting Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown from the Cardinals almost for free?? Now that’s a deal!!…
Get A Load Of These Crazy Baseball Trades!
We all can recall some lopsided trades, but absolutely “crazy trades”? In Ron Christensen’s essay today, we learn of players being traded for donuts, for a suit of clothes, in payment for rent…and the proverbial “player traded for himself!”…
Tito Francona’s 1961 Home Run Gives New Meaning to the Term: “Dead Ball” Era!
Whenever you look past the surface and go deeper into the career of almost any major leaguer, you’ll invariably find some little tidbit of information that’s interesting or unusual. Such was the case when I was investigating the career of Tito Francona…
Great Deal for White Sox: Billy Pierce Comes Gift-Wrapped from the Tigers!
What a career the highly underrated, often overlooked Billy Pierce went on to have, including one day in 1958 when he flirted with the history books…
The Most Lopsided Trades in Baseball History: “Lefty” O’Doul for Freddy Leach!
Ninety-four years ago this Fall, the Giants traded Lefty O’Doul to the Phillies for the aforementioned Freddy Leach…
Hall of Famer Fergie Jenkins Gets His Statue!
Here’s one we can file under: Most Lopsided Trades of All Time! It doesn’t get much worse than this!
Another Edition of Lopsided Trades: Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown Goes to the Cubs!
Brock for Broglio? Yeah, that wasn’t a bad deal…But how about getting Mordecai “Three Finger ” Brown almost for free?? Now that’s a deal!…
Another Edition of Lopsided Trades: Yankees Deal Urban Shocker To the Browns!
As I continue my series on lopsided trades, today I’ll be featuring one that was consummated near the end of the Dead Ball Era (1918) and had ramifications well into the 1920s…
Another Edition of “Baseball’s Lopsided Trades”: Frank Robinson for Milt Pappas!
Today in my ongoing series on lopsided trades, I’d like to highlight the December 9, 1965 trade of the great slugger, Frank Robinson, from the Reds to the Orioles for Milt Pappas…
Ballplayers and Their Children, Part I
Today, I’m reintroducing a series I started a few years ago, which at the time I called Ballplayers and their Children.
Tribute To Lou Brock, RIP
The entire baseball world was saddened to learn yesterday of the passing of the great Hall-of-Famer, Lou Brock…
A Real Blockbuster Deal: Frank Lane Trades Home Run King Rocky Colavito to the Tigers For Batting Champion Harvey Kuenn!
Bill Gutman’s recent post about “What If These Trades Were Never Made” got me thinking about trades that were indeed made, but probably never should have been.
Baseball’s Most Lopsided Trades – The Dodgers Steal Billy Herman From the Cubs…and Win the 1941 Pennant!
“I was able to tell Dodger GM Larry MacPhail we had a hell of a ball club there. But we could win the whole thing with one other player.” “And who was that?” MacPhail wanted to know. “Billy Herman,” I said in no uncertain terms…
The Brooklyn Dodgers Trade Casey Stengel, January 2, 1918!
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Another Edition of Lopsided Trades! The Phillies Trade Ace “Old Pete” Alexander For… Who??
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Another Editon of Lopsided Trades: Urban Shocker Stars For the Browns After Trade From Yankees!
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The Worst Trade in Cub History: Lou Brock for Ernie Broglio!
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Urban Shocker Returns to the Yankees!
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Here’s one we can file under: “Most Lopsided Trades of All Time!”
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Another Edition of “Lopsided Trades”: Eddie “The Brat” Stanky Traded to the Braves!
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Spotlight on the Hall of Fame: The Often-Overlooked “Sunny Jim” Bottomley
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“The Most Lopsided Trades in Baseball History”: Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown Goes to the Cubs!
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The Most Lopsided Trades in Baseball History: “Lefty” O’Doul for Freddy Leach, October 29, 1928!
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One Of The Most Lopsided Trades Ever: The White Sox Obtain Nellie Fox!
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One of the Most Lopsided Trades Ever: The Dodgers Steal Billy Herman From the Cubs…and Win the 1941 Pennant!
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The Most Lopsided Trade of All-Time!
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The Worst Trade in Baseball History: Hall-of-Famer Lou Brock for Sore-Armed Pitcher Ernie Broglio!
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