Comments on: Let’s Make a Deal: 6 of Baseball’s Strangest Trades http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/19824 Feel Smart Again Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:01:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Cliff http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/19824/comment-page-1#comment-105740 Cliff Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:07:00 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/19824#comment-105740 1. Can you document that Chiti was traded for a player to be named later? The Ruane-Ball Transactions Database has it as a sale from Cleveland to the Mets. Being returned to the team that traded/sold you is not unusual. Happened to Ray Sanders, Brant Alyea, Fred Beene, Clint Courtney, and many others. 3. It wasn't the wives that were swapped. It was the husbands. The wives, kids, dogs, etc. all stayed in the same place. 1. Can you document that Chiti was traded for a player to be named later? The Ruane-Ball Transactions Database has it as a sale from Cleveland to the Mets. Being returned to the team that traded/sold you is not unusual. Happened to Ray Sanders, Brant Alyea, Fred Beene, Clint Courtney, and many others.

3. It wasn’t the wives that were swapped. It was the husbands. The wives, kids, dogs, etc. all stayed in the same place.

]]> By: CHRIS http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/19824/comment-page-1#comment-105729 CHRIS Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:31:00 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/19824#comment-105729 Actually Winfield played for the Indians in 1995, though he was not on the teams playoff roster.. Actually Winfield played for the Indians in 1995, though he was not on the teams playoff roster..

]]> By: NELSON http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/19824/comment-page-1#comment-105680 NELSON Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:28:00 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/19824#comment-105680 JOE ENGEL ALSO TRADED A PLAYER FOR A BLOCK OF ICE JOE ENGEL ALSO TRADED A PLAYER FOR A BLOCK OF ICE

]]> By: clotho http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/19824/comment-page-1#comment-105654 clotho Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:36:00 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/19824#comment-105654 can't forget Dave Winfield in '94 - traded to the Indians by the Twins for a player to be named later, and the player to be named later ended up being dinner for the Indians'execs on the Twins' tab - so Dave Winfield was traded for dinner can’t forget Dave Winfield in ’94 – traded to the Indians by the Twins for a player to be named later, and the player to be named later ended up being dinner for the Indians’execs on the Twins’ tab – so Dave Winfield was traded for dinner

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