1941

The Cleveland Indians engineered a six-player swap with the Boston Red Sox. There had been discussions between the two teams as far back at late 1938, but they finally came to fruition in the December 12, 1940 trade. The Red Sox sent six players to the Indians for pitcher Joe Dobson, catcher Frankie Pytlak, and Odell Hale, who frankly just balanced the deal out a bit. News stories about the trade barely mentioned him, despite a nine-year batting average of .293 for the Tribe ...

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