Now, if Duquette had been the GM back in '72 ...
To: Mike Fieschko
Who was the GM when they traded Bagwell for Larry Andersen? That was a beaut too.
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03/22/2002 10:43:27 AM PST by
Dales
To: M Kehoe
Ahhhhh.... reminiscing.
To: Mike Fieschko
GO Yankees
To: Mike Fieschko
What about 1971 when the Mets just HAD to have that fabulous Jim Fregosi...[snort]
So they traded that young strikeout artist to the California Angels; you know the one I mean...yeah, that's his name! Nolan Ryan!
To: Mike Fieschko
I wouldn't exactly rate Lyle for Cater as the worst trade in Red Sox history. (Hel-loooo, Babe Ruth and a mortgage on Fenway Park for some Broadway musicals; hel-looooo, Dennis Eckersley for Bill Buckner.) As it turned out, Lyle didn't last all that long afterward, and at least when he retired it made the clubhouse safe for birthday and other cakes again...
To: Mike Fieschko
Stupid Baseball Trade Tricks:
Lou Brock for Ernie Broglio (and the Cubs had actually been warned that Broglio might be through: earlier that season, they'd gotten Lew Burdette from the Cardinals in another deal, and Burdette had tipped off the Cubs' coaching staff that Broglio was taking shots routinely for elbow trouble. Phil Wrigley wanted him anyway and the rest is misery...)
Frank Robinson for Milt Pappas: "He's an old 30," said Cincinnati Reds GM Dick Wagner. I'd like to be that old a 30, too. Milt Pappas? He was a whining clubhouse lawyer who never let himself finish a ball game or throw more than eighty pitches in any game until Leo Durocher got in his face about it when he ended up on the Cubs in the early 1970s - and Pappas has the nerve to think he belongs in the Hall of Fame?
To: Mike Fieschko
Delino DeShields for Pedro Martinez? Worst trade in history?
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