Rube Waddell Trades and Transactions

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

"Rube Waddell loved pitching, fishing and drinking. When he died, the found him in a gin-filled bathtub with three drunken trout." - Mike Royko in the Chicago Sun-Times (1981)

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Rube Waddell
 
 
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Birth Name:   George Edward Waddell
Nickname:   Rube
Born On:   10-13-1876  (Libra)
Place of Birth Data Born In:   Bradford, Pennsylvania
Year of Death Data Died On:   04-01-1914
Place of Death Data Died In:   San Antonio, Texas
Cemetery:   Mission Burial Park, San Antonio, Texas Click For Grave Photo
High School:   Undetermined
College:   Volant College
Batting Stances Chart Bats:   Right   Throwing Arms Chart Throws:   Left
Player Height Chart Height:   6-01½   Player Weight Chart Weight:   196
First Game:   09-08-1897 (Age 20)
Last Game:   08-01-1910
Draft:   Not Applicable
Rube Waddell

Trades & Transactions

08-25-1897: Signed as a non-drafted free agent by Louisville Colonels.
11-00-1897: Sent to Detroit (Western) by Louisville Colonels for future considerations.
09-00-1898: Selected by Louisville Colonels from Detroit (Western) in the Rule 5 major league draft.
00-00-1899: Loaned to Columbus-Grand Rapids (Western) from Louisville Colonels.
09-09-1899: Returned to Louisville Colonels after being loaned to Columbus-Grand Rapids (Western).
12-08-1899: Traded by Louisville Colonels (with Bert Cunningham, Deacon Phillippe, Jack Wadsworth, Chief Zimmer, Tacks Latimer, Tom Messitt, Mike Kelley, Claude Ritchey, Tommy Leach, Fred Clarke and Honus Wagner) to Pittsburgh Pirates for Jack Chesbro, Paddy Fox, John O'Brien and Art Madison.
07-25-1900: Loaned to Milwaukee (American) from Pittsburgh Pirates.
08-29-1900: Returned to Pittsburgh Pirates after being loaned to Milwaukee (American).
05-02-1901: Sold by Pittsburgh Pirates to Chicago Orphans for "good money".
12-19-1901: Jumped to Los Angeles (California League) from Chicago Orphans.
06-19-1902: Jumped to Philadelphia Athletics from Los Angeles (California League).
02-07-1908: Sold by Philadelphia Athletics to St. Louis Browns.


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 Rube Waddell 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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