Bill Dietrich Trades and Transactions

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

"I tried the knuckle ball once. I worked on it a long while and finally,a couple years ago, I threw two of them at Cleveland. One was a homer and the other a triple - and the triple was hit farther than the homer!" - Bill Dietrich in Baseball Magazine (September 1942)

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Bill Dietrich
 
 
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Birth Name:   William John Dietrich
Nickname:   Bill or Bullfrog
Born On:   03-29-1910  (Aries)
Place of Birth Data Born In:   Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Year of Death Data Died On:   06-20-1978
Place of Death Data Died In:   Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cemetery:   Undetermined
High School:   Frankford High School (Philadelphia, PA)
College:   Villanova University
Batting Stances Chart Bats:   Right   Throwing Arms Chart Throws:   Right
Player Height Chart Height:   6-00   Player Weight Chart Weight:   185
First Game:   04-13-1933 (Age 23)
Last Game:   06-05-1948
Draft:   Not Applicable
Bill Dietrich

Trades & Transactions

07-01-1936: Claimed on waivers by Washington Senators from Philadelphia Athletics.
07-20-1936: Claimed on waivers by Chicago White Sox from Washington Senators.
09-18-1946: Released by Chicago White Sox.
00-00-1947: Signed by Philadelphia Athletics.
06-18-1948: Released by 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 Bill Dietrich 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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