Bill Kunkel Trades and Transactions

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

"On another occasion, Martin asked umpire Bill Kunkel to 'just smell the ball, please,' Kunkel told him, 'Billy, I have allergies and a deviated septum.' 'Jesus,' roared Martin, 'I've got an umpire who can't see or smell.'" - Author Peter Handrinos in The Funniest Baseball Book Ever: The National Pastime's Greatest Quips, Quotations, Characters, Nicknames, and Pranks (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 04/06/2010, 'Spitballs', Page 199)

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Bill Kunkel
 
 
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Birth Name:   William Gustave James Kunkel
Nickname:   Bill
Born On:   07-07-1936  (Cancer)
Place of Birth Data Born In:   Hoboken, New Jersey
Year of Death Data Died On:   05-04-1985
Place of Death Data Died In:   Red Bank, New Jersey
Cemetery:   Cremated
High School:   Demarest High School (Hoboken, NJ)
College:   None Attended
Batting Stances Chart Bats:   Right   Throwing Arms Chart Throws:   Right
Player Height Chart Height:   6-01   Player Weight Chart Weight:   187
First Game:   04-15-1961 (Age 24)
Last Game:   09-21-1963
Draft:   Not Applicable
Bill Kunkel

Trades & Transactions

00-00-1955: Signed as an amateur free agent by Boston Red Sox.
00-00-1956: Trade of unknown type from Boston Red Sox to Brooklyn Dodgers.
11-28-1960: Selected by Kansas City Athletics from Los Angeles Dodgers in the Rule 5 major league draft.
08-03-1962: Traded by Kansas City Athletics (with Leo Posada) to Milwaukee Braves for Orlando Pena.
11-26-1962: Selected by New York Yankees from Milwaukee Braves in the Rule 5 major league draft.


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 Kunkel 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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