Wilbur Cooper Trades and Transactions

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

"A ball was hit past me and I thought it would be a hit. Honus Wagner scooped it up behind second base and got the out. As I walked off the field, I said 'Mr. Wagner, if they field like that in back of me, I will be up here (in the Major Leagues) for a long time.' He said, 'You make them hit and we will do the rest.' " - Wilbur Cooper in the Cleveland Plain Dealer (Dan Coughlin, 08/16/1967)

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Wilbur Cooper
 
 
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Birth Name:   Arley Wilbur Cooper
Nickname:   Lefty
Born On:   02-24-1892  (Pisces)
Place of Birth Data Born In:   Bearsville, West Virginia
Year of Death Data Died On:   08-07-1973
Place of Death Data Died In:   Encino, California
Cemetery:   Cremated
High School:   Undetermined
College:   None Attended
Batting Stances Chart Bats:   Right   Throwing Arms Chart Throws:   Left
Player Height Chart Height:   5-11   Player Weight Chart Weight:   175
First Game:   08-29-1912 (Age 20)
Last Game:   07-21-1926
Draft:   Not Applicable
Wilbur Cooper

Trades & Transactions

08-25-1912: Traded by Columbus (American Association) to Pittsburgh Pirates.
10-27-1924: Traded by Pittsburgh Pirates (with Charlie Grimm and Rabbit Maranville) to Chicago Cubs for Vic Aldridge, George Grantham and Al Niehaus.
06-07-1926: Claimed on waivers by Detroit Tigers from Chicago Cubs.


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 Wilbur Cooper 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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