Woodie Held Trades and Transactions

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

"Don't forget to swing hard, just in case you hit the ball." - Woodie Held in The Plain Dealer (Grant Segall, 06/11/2009)

Woodie was a baseball hero to some and a great guy to many.

Woodie Held

Woodie Held Autograph on a 1964 Topps (#105)

Woodie Held Autograph on a 1964 Topps (#105)
 

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Birth Name:   Woodson George Held
Nickname:   Woodie or Woody
Born On:   03-25-1932  (Aries)
Place of Birth Data Born In:   Sacramento, California
Year of Death Data Died On:   06-11-2009
Place of Death Data Died In:   Dubois, Wyoming
Cemetery:   Cremated
High School:   Undetermined
College:   None Attended
Batting Stances Chart Bats:   Right   Throwing Arms Chart Throws:   Right
Player Height Chart Height:   5-11   Player Weight Chart Weight:   180
First Game:   09-05-1954 (Age 22)
Last Game:   09-28-1969
Draft:   Not Applicable
Woodie Held

Trades & Transactions

00-00-1951: Signed as an amateur free agent by New York Yankees.
06-15-1957: Traded by New York Yankees (with Billy Martin, Ralph Terry and Bob Martyn) to Kansas City Athletics for Ryne Duren, Jim Pisoni and Harry Simpson.
06-15-1958: Traded by Kansas City Athletics (with Vic Power) to Cleveland Indians for Roger Maris, Preston Ward and Dick Tomanek.
12-01-1964: Traded by Cleveland Indians (with Bob Chance) to Washington Senators for Chuck Hinton.
10-12-1965: Traded by Washington Senators to Baltimore Orioles for John Orsino.
06-15-1967: Traded by Baltimore Orioles to California Angels for Marcelino Lopez.
07-20-1968: Traded by California Angels to Chicago White Sox for Wayne Causey.
10-15-1969: Released by Chicago White Sox.


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 Woodie Held 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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