Les Moss Trades and Transactions

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

"Les Moss was introduced to sports page readers as the 'greatest find in professional baseball,' according to his enthusiastic manager Jerry Tiemann, skipper of the Americus Pioneers in the Class D Georgia-Florida League. Moss was 17 years old at the time. He'd been signed by St. Louis Browns scout Jack Fournier in October 1941, when he was 16, and optioned to Americus." - Baseball Historian Bill Nowlin (SABR Baseball Biography Project, 'Les Moss', Source)

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Les Moss

Les Moss Autograph on a 1991 Tip-Top Bread Reprint

Les Moss Autograph on a 1991 Tip-Top Bread Reprint
 

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Birth Name:   John Lester Moss
Nickname:   Les
Born On:   05-14-1925  (Taurus)
Place of Birth Data Born In:   Tulsa, Oklahoma
Year of Death Data Died On:   08-29-2012
Place of Death Data Died In:   Longwood, Florida
Cemetery:   Undetermined
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:   205
First Game:   09-10-1946 (Age 21)
Last Game:   09-01-1958
Draft:   Not Applicable
Les Moss

Trades & Transactions

00-00-1942: Signed as an amateur free agent by Chicago Cubs.
00-00-1943: Trade of unknown type from Chicago Cubs to Philadelphia Athletics.
00-00-1945: Returned to Elmira (Eastern) - working agreement with minor league team (Philadelphia Athletics) ended.
00-00-1945: Obtained rights when entering into working agreement with a minor league team (St. Louis Browns).
05-17-1951: Traded by St. Louis Browns to Boston Red Sox for Jim Suchecki, Matt Batts and Jim McDonald.
11-28-1951: Traded by Boston Red Sox (with Tom Wright) to St. Louis Browns for Gus Niarhos and Ken Wood.
06-06-1955: Traded by Baltimore Orioles to Chicago White Sox for Harry Dorish.


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 Les Moss 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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