George Burns Trades and Transactions

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

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George Burns
 
 
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Birth Name:   George Henry Burns
Nickname:   Tioga George
Born On:   01-31-1893  (Aquarius)
Place of Birth Data Born In:   Niles, Ohio
Year of Death Data Died On:   01-07-1978
Place of Death Data Died In:   Kirkland, Washington
Cemetery:   Calvary Cemetery, Seattle, Washington
High School:   Central High School (Philadelphia, PA)
College:   None Attended
Batting Stances Chart Bats:   Right   Throwing Arms Chart Throws:   Right
Player Height Chart Height:   6-01½   Player Weight Chart Weight:   180
First Game:   04-14-1914 (Age 21)
Last Game:   09-29-1929
Draft:   Not Applicable
George Burns

Trades & Transactions

03-08-1918: Sold by Detroit Tigers to New York Yankees.
03-08-1918: Traded by New York Yankees to Philadelphia Athletics for Ping Bodie.
05-29-1920: Sold by Philadelphia Athletics to Cleveland Indians.
12-24-1921: Traded by Cleveland Indians (with Joe Harris and Elmer Smith) to Boston Red Sox for Stuffy McInnis.
01-07-1924: Traded by Boston Red Sox (with Roxy Walters and Chick Fewster) to Cleveland Indians for Dan Boone, Steve O'Neill, Joe Connolly and Bill Wambsganss.
09-17-1928: Sold by Cleveland Indians to New York Yankees.
06-19-1929: Sold by New York Yankees to Philadelphia Athletics.


Did you know that during the physical, if a team finds out that the player received during a trade is injured they may return the player to the originating team within ten days from the date the trade was made and void the entire contract?

The Baseball Almanac trades and transactions database includes Rule 5 Draft picks, free agency information, voided trades, waiver picks, expansion draft data, amateur draft data, player refusals, bonus babies, and many other types of not readily found anywhere on the Internet.

Baseball trades & transactions, like the George Burns trades and transactions seen above, are an evolving field of research where new discoveries are often found and new player debuts are added to the data set almost daily.

     

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