Roy Johnson Trades and Transactions

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

"A four-time .300 hitter, he (Roy Johnson) became a genuine team leader. Johnson, Smead Jolley and Earl Averill formed one of the all-time great minor league outfields with the Pacific Coast League San Francisco Seals." - Ed Walton on BaseballLibrary.com

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Roy Johnson
 
 
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Birth Name:   Roy Cleveland Johnson
Nickname:   None
Born On:   02-23-1903  (Pisces)
Place of Birth Data Born In:   Pryor, Oklahoma
Year of Death Data Died On:   09-10-1973
Place of Death Data Died In:   Tacoma, Washington
Cemetery:   Cremated
High School:   Tacoma High School (Tacoma, WA)
College:   None Attended
Batting Stances Chart Bats:   Left   Throwing Arms Chart Throws:   Right
Player Height Chart Height:   5-09   Player Weight Chart Weight:   175
First Game:   04-18-1929 (Age 26)
Last Game:   04-27-1938
Draft:   Not Applicable
Roy Johnson

Trades & Transactions

10-19-1928: Traded by San Francisco (PCL) to Detroit Tigers for Al Wingo.
06-12-1932: Traded by Detroit Tigers (with Dale Alexander) to Boston Red Sox for Earl Webb.
12-17-1935: Traded by Boston Red Sox (with Carl Reynolds) to Washington Senators for Heinie Manush.
01-17-1936: Traded by Washington Senators (with Bump Hadley) to New York Yankees for Jimmy DeShong and Jesse Hill.
05-11-1937: Claimed on waivers by Boston Braves from New York Yankees.
05-12-1938: Sold by Boston Braves to Cleveland Indians.


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 Roy Johnson 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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