Ed Bailey Trades and Transactions

The Ed Bailey trades and transactions seen below include all known instances where Ed Bailey has been involved in a trade or transaction of any type as it relates to baseball.

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"At Winter Haven, Eddie Kasko, the Red Sox' director of scouting (and a former manager of the BoSox), was talking about Sandy, too. He had a couple of friends from Massachusetts in tow - fans down to watch the Sox in training - and at one point he told us about a day back in the early nineteen-sixties, when he was an infielder with the Reds, and he and Whitey Lockman and Ed Bailey were sitting together on the bench, watching Koufax in action for the visiting Dodgers. 'Sandy is just chewing us up out there, putting down the batters in rows with that tremendous fastball,' Kasko said, 'but Ed Bailey keeps saying, 'Well, he don't look like nothing special to me. That pitch isn't much. I wish they'd give me a crack at him.' Ed loved to pinch-hit, you know - he thought there wasn't anybody he couldn't hit. Well, a little later we're way behind in the game, and Hutch sends Bailey up to bat against Sandy, and it's one, two, three strikes you're out. Eddie swings three times and doesn't come within a foot of the ball. He walks back to the dugout and sits down, and after a while I give Whitey a little nudge and I say, 'Well, Ed, what do you think now?' And Bailey turns around, all red in the face, and says, 'He's too straight!' Whitey says, 'Yes - and so is a .30-.30.'" - Author Roger Angell in The Roger Angell Baseball Collection: The Summer Game, Five Seasons, and Season Ticket (Open Road Media, 11/18/2013, Page 218)

Ed Bailey

Ed Bailey Autograph on a 1994 Topps Archive (#184)

Ed Bailey Autograph on a 1994 Topps Archive (#184)

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Birth Name:   Lonas Edgar Bailey, Jr.
Nickname:   Ed
Born On:   04-15-1931  (Aries)
Place of Birth Data Born In:   Strawberry Plains, Tennessee
Year of Death Data Died On:   03-23-2007
Place of Death Data Died In:   Knoxville, Tennessee
Cemetery:   Tennessee Veterans Cemetery, Knoxville, Tennessee
High School:   Rush Strong High School (Strawberry Plains, TN)
College:   University of Tennessee
Batting Stances Chart Bats:   Left   Throwing Arms Chart Throws:   Right
Player Height Chart Height:   6-02   Player Weight Chart Weight:   205
First Game:   09-26-1953 (Age 22)
Last Game:   04-26-1966
Draft:   Not Applicable

Ed Bailey Trades & Transactions

Baseball Trades & Transactions Involving Ed Bailey

-- Signed as an amateur free agent by Cincinnati Reds (1950).
04-27-1961 Traded by Cincinnati Reds to San Francisco Giants in exchange for Bob Schmidt, Don Blasingame and a player to be named later (April 27, 1961); Cincinnati Reds received Sherman Jones (May 13, 1961).
12-03-1963 Traded by San Francisco Giants with Felipe Alou, Billy Hoeft and a player to be named later to Milwaukee Braves in exchange for Del Crandall, Bob Shaw and Bob Hendley (December 3, 1963); Milwaukee Braves received Ernie Bowman (January 8, 1964).
02-01-1965 Traded by Milwaukee Braves to San Francisco Giants in exchange for Billy O'Dell (February 1, 1965).
05-29-1965 Traded by San Francisco Giants with Harvey Kuenn and Bob Hendley to Chicago Cubs in exchange for Dick Bertell and Len Gabrielson (May 29, 1965).
01-15-1966 Sold by Chicago Cubs to California Angels (January 15, 1966).
05-07-1966 Released by California Angels (May 7, 1966).

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