Walt Dropo Trades and Transactions

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

"That Dropo can be pitched to. He will not hit anywhere near as well as he did last season. High and tight, and that big guy is licked." - Casey Stengel in Baseball Digest (The Houston Chronicle Sportswriter Alan Truex, August 1992, 'The Second Year Jinx: A Difficult Pitch to Dodge')

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Walt Dropo

Walt Dropo Autograph on a 1993 Topps Archive (#121)

Walt Dropo Autograph on a 1993 Topps Archive (#121)
 

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Birth Name:   Walter Dropo
Nickname:   Moose, Moose from Moosup
Born On:   01-30-1923  (Aquarius)
Place of Birth Data Born In:   Moosup, Connecticut
Year of Death Data Died On:   12-17-2010
Place of Death Data Died In:   Peabody, Massachusetts
Cemetery:   Evergreen Cemetery, Moosup, Connecticut
High School:   Plainfield High School (Plainfield, CT)
College:   University of Connecticut
Batting Stances Chart Bats:   Right   Throwing Arms Chart Throws:   Right
Player Height Chart Height:   6-05   Player Weight Chart Weight:   220
First Game:   04-19-1949 (Age 26)
Last Game:   05-17-1961
Draft:   Not Applicable
Walt Dropo

Trades & Transactions

00-00-1947: Signed as an amateur free agent by Boston Red Sox.
06-03-1952: Traded by Boston Red Sox (with Bill Wight, Fred Hatfield, Johnny Pesky and Don Lenhardt) to Detroit Tigers for Dizzy Trout, George Kell, Johnny Lipon and Hoot Evers.
12-06-1954: Traded by Detroit Tigers (with Bob Nieman and Ted Gray) to Chicago White Sox for Leo Cristante, Ferris Fain and Jack Phillips.
06-24-1958: Claimed on waivers by Cincinnati Reds from Chicago White Sox.
06-23-1959: Traded by Cincinnati Reds to Baltimore Orioles for Whitey Lockman.
05-24-1961: Released by Baltimore Orioles.


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 Walt Dropo 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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