Cliff Chambers Trades and Transactions

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

"Seldom changes up and tries to go it on fast balls alone. Pirates board of strategy attempted to interest him in a curve, but he preferred to stick with swift." - Columnist Milt Richman in Baseball Digest (January 1951)

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Cliff Chambers

Cliff Chambers Autograph on a 1951 Picture Card Reprint (#131)

Cliff Chambers Autograph on a 1951 Picture Card Reprint (#131)
 

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Birth Name:   Clifford Day Chambers
Nickname:   Cliff or Lefty
Born On:   01-10-1922  (Capricorn)
Place of Birth Data Born In:   Portland, Oregon
Year of Death Data Died On:   01-21-2012
Place of Death Data Died In:   Eagle, Idaho
Cemetery:   Dry Creek Cemetery, Boise, Idaho
High School:   Bellingham High School (Bellingham, WA)
College:   Washington State College
Batting Stances Chart Bats:   Left   Throwing Arms Chart Throws:   Left
Player Height Chart Height:   6-03   Player Weight Chart Weight:   208
First Game:   04-24-1948 (Age 26)
Last Game:   09-22-1953
Draft:   Not Applicable
Cliff Chambers

Trades & Transactions

00-00-1942: Signed as an amateur free agent by Chicago Cubs.
12-08-1948: Traded by Chicago Cubs (with Clyde McCullough) to Pittsburgh Pirates for Cal McLish and Frankie Gustine.
06-15-1951: Traded by Pittsburgh Pirates (with Wally Westlake) to St. Louis Cardinals for Bill Howerton, Howie Pollet, Ted Wilks, Joe Garagiola and Dick Cole.


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 Cliff Chambers 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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