Trivia Thread: Who is the only player to be traded for himself?

[redseat]

Today's trivia:

"Who was the first player ever to be traded for himself"

 

[redseat]

BigD - I am assuming you will come up with this answer

 

[redseat]

Could we make a "trivia" sports section on this site?

 

[obxyankeefan]

Today's trivia:

"Who was the first player ever to be traded for himself"

Henry Chiti Who can ever forget that name

 

[redseat]

Henry Chiti Who can ever forget that name

Nice! Didn't think many people would come up with this....


Would you like a daily trivia thread?

 

[obxyankeefan]

Nice! Didn't think many people would come up with this....


Would you like a daily trivia thread?

I have always enjoyed the Trivia side of the game.

 

[Cleaves2000]

May i ask, how that happened? Traded for himself

 

[redseat]

Apparently:

He was a catcher, he was traded to the Indians from the Mets for a "player to be named later," but after only 15 games with the Mets he got traded back.

 

[redseat]

I have always enjoyed the Trivia side of the game.

Sweet!!

Ok: How about this one, "Name the player (and how far he threw it) who threw the longest ball?"

 

[redseat]

Lets keep this thread alive... People come on down and put in your sports trivia questions

 

[DragonfromTO]

This also happened to Clint "Scrap Iron" Courtney I believe

 

[DragonfromTO]

Here's one I came up with the other day while poking around stat pages... Name the two pitchers in MLB history with 500+ IP that allowed more walks than hits. One is still active, so he could turn it around still.

 

[redseat]

Here's one I came up with the other day while poking around stat pages... Name the two pitchers in MLB history with 500+ IP that allowed more walks than hits. One is still active, so he could turn it around still.

Dice-K?

 

[DragonfromTO]

This also happened to Clint "Scrap Iron" Courtney I believe

Yep, I remembered right it looks like

Clint Courtney Statistics and History - Baseball-Reference.com

January 24, 1961: Traded by the Baltimore Orioles with Jim Archer, Bob Boyd, Wayne Causey and Al Pilarcik to the Kansas City Athletics for Whitey Herzog and Russ Snyder. Clint Courtney returned to original team on April 14, 1961.

I kind of think there may be a couple of others too, I remembered Courtney because Whitey Herzog mentioned him having been traded for himself as a PTBNL in one of his autobiographies.

 

[DragonfromTO]

Dice-K?

No sir, he's got way more hits allowed than walks.

 

[DragonfromTO]

Yep, I remembered right it looks like

Clint Courtney Statistics and History - Baseball-Reference.com

January 24, 1961: Traded by the Baltimore Orioles with Jim Archer, Bob Boyd, Wayne Causey and Al Pilarcik to the Kansas City Athletics for Whitey Herzog and Russ Snyder. Clint Courtney returned to original team on April 14, 1961.

I kind of think there may be a couple of others too, I remembered Courtney because Whitey Herzog mentioned him having been traded for himself as a PTBNL in one of his autobiographies.

And actually looking at the dates Courtney was before Chiti, so he may not have been the first one that this happened to but Chiti wasn't either.

 

[redseat]

No sir, he's got way more hits allowed than walks.

Woops, read the question wrong.... Though He has to have some record about loading the bases and not allowing a run lol

 

[DragonfromTO]

Woops, read the question wrong.... Though He has to have some record about loading the bases and not allowing a run lol

It's a pretty good question I think, both are recognizable names and both are guys that you'll say "I should have guessed that!" when you hear them. That's my general definition of good trivia... an obscure question with a recognizable answer.

 

[steveringo]

Sweet!!

Ok: How about this one, "Name the player (and how far he threw it) who threw the longest ball?"

Was it Bo Jackson? I remember some video of him chucking the ball a mile....

 

[redseat]

Was it Bo Jackson? I remember some video of him chucking the ball a mile....

Nope good guess though...


It's earlier than the 60s.... if that helps