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From: schneider@vlnvax.DEC
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Subject: re: baseball Trivia
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Date: Thu, 14-Feb-85 10:24:27 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 14 10:24:27 1985
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Just to be semi-complete in my trivia question about the Cardinals
trading away 500 wins, and to furnish for the question about the Mike 
Torrez trade from the Expos...

In return for Torrez and Ruess, the Cards got Bob Johnson, a journeyman
pitcher and Spicio Spinks.  There were others involved also, but these
were the particulars.  Johnson once had the dubious distinction of being
the all time Kansas City Royal single season strikeout leader!  Of course,
this was only after their first season in the league, but he had a very
good year for an expansion team (something like 208 K's).  Those Royals
were a smart team too, because they immediately turned around and traded
him for...well I'll leave that for you and the net.

Anyway, when Torrez left the Expos, he went to Baltimore.  The trade was one
of the more lopsided probably in baseball history, as it gave the Orioles
production for the next decade (which just ended 1975-1984) and it gave the
Expos very little except it put them in the action for probably the most
influential legal decision in baseball's history.  The trade was Torrez and
Kenny Singleton for Rich Coggins and Dave McNally.

Daniel Schneider
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