Gil Hodges Trades and Transactions

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

"I give him strong credit for Jackie Robinson's success. Pee Wee Reese gets identified with Jackie because they were the second/short combination. But on the other side of Jackie, Gil Hodges played, and Gil was a peacekeeper. Everybody respected him, teammates and opponents alike." - Carl Erskine in Gil Hodges Still Remembered by His Indiana Home Town (Baseball Digest : February 1995)

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Gil Hodges

Gil Hodges Autograph on a 1966 Topps (#386)

Gil Hodges Autograph on a 1966 Topps (#386)
 

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Birth Name:   Gilbert Ray Hodge
Nickname:   The Miracle Worker
Born On:   04-04-1924  (Aries)
Place of Birth Data Born In:   Princeton, Indiana
Year of Death Data Died On:   04-02-1972
Place of Death Data Died In:   West Palm Beach, Florida
Cemetery:   Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York
High School:   Petersburg High School (Petersburg, IN)
College:   Saint Joseph's College
Batting Stances Chart Bats:   Right   Throwing Arms Chart Throws:   Right
Player Height Chart Height:   6-01½   Player Weight Chart Weight:   200
First Game:   10-03-1943 (Age 19)
Last Game:   05-05-1963
Draft:   Not Applicable
Gil Hodges

Trades & Transactions

00-00-1943: Signed as an amateur free agent by Brooklyn Dodgers.
10-10-1961: Selected by New York Mets — expansion draft.
05-23-1963: Traded by New York Mets to Washington Senators for Jimmy Piersall.
11-27-1967: Traded by Washington Senators to New York Mets for Bill Denehy.


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 Gil Hodges 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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