Sam Rice Trades and Transactions

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

"I remember trotting back towards the infield carrying the ball for about half way and then tossed it towards the pitchers mound. (How I wished many times I had kept it.) At no time did I lose possession of the ball." - Sam Rice (Letter to the Hall of Fame written about the 1925 World Series)

Please consider sponsoring this page which is available.

Baseball Almanac started in 2000. Five years ago we averaged 255,048 hits per day, in 2011 we are averaging more than 1,800,000 hits per day. We rely on YOUR support and banner advertising (which we do our best to keep to a minimum). Please help us keep growing for another ten years.

How do you put your sponsorship here today for one full year (less than $3 per month and it REALLY does help us)? Simply click the PayPal button below, INCLUDE the player's name AND your message, and we will email you back usually within 24 hours:

Sam Rice

Sam Rice Autograph on a 1961 Fleer Baseball Greats (#34)

Sam Rice Autograph on a 1961 Fleer Baseball Greats (#34)
 

Career All-Star Division LCS World Series Trades Awards Videos /
Birth Name:   Edgar Charles Rice
Nickname:   Sam
Born On:   02-20-1890  (Pisces)
Place of Birth Data Born In:   Morocco, Indiana
Year of Death Data Died On:   10-13-1974
Place of Death Data Died In:   Rossmoor, Maryland
Cemetery:   Woodside Cemetery, Brinklow, Maryland Click For Grave Photo
High School:   Rhode Island Country High School (Rhode Island Country, IN)
College:   None Attended
Batting Stances Chart Bats:   Left   Throwing Arms Chart Throws:   Right
Player Height Chart Height:   5-09   Player Weight Chart Weight:   150
First Game:   08-07-1915 (Age 25)
Last Game:   09-18-1934
Draft:   Not Applicable
Sam Rice

Trades & Transactions

07-28-1915: Sold by Petersburg (Virginia) to Washington Senators.
01-08-1934: Released by Washington Senators.
02-13-1934: Signed by 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 Sam Rice 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.

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook