Jack Clements Trades and Transactions

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

"Although he was not the first, John Clements certainly was the best left-handed catcher in all baseball history." - Historian Al Glynn in Nineteenth Century Stars (1989)

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Jack Clements
 
 
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Birth Name:   John J. Clements
Nickname:   Jack
Born On:   07-24-1864  (Leo)
Place of Birth Data Born In:   Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Year of Death Data Died On:   05-23-1941
Place of Death Data Died In:   Norristown, Pennsylvania
Cemetery:   Arlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania
High School:   Undetermined
College:   None Attended
Batting Stances Chart Bats:   Left   Throwing Arms Chart Throws:   Left
Player Height Chart Height:   5-08½   Player Weight Chart Weight:   204
First Game:   04-22-1884 (Age 19)
Last Game:   10-02-1900
Draft:   Not Applicable
Jack Clements

Trades & Transactions

08-11-1884: Signed by Philadelphia Phillies.
11-10-1897: Traded by Philadelphia Phillies (with Lave Cross, Tommy Dowd and Jack Taylor) to St. Louis Cardinals for Monte Cross, Klondike Douglass and Red Donahue.
03-29-1899: Assigned from St. Louis Cardinals to Cleveland Spiders without compensation.
05-18-1899: Released by Cleveland Spiders.


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 Jack Clements 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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