Can you believe that the Boston Red Sox once traded away a player who was considered to be one of the best in all of baseball? He had just turned 28 years old and was right in the prime of his career; he was a defensive whiz, the best outfielder of his day and one of the greatest of all-time; he terrorized the opposition with his base-running skills; added to that, he was a terrific hitter.
And his name wasn't Mookie Betts. Nor was it Babe Ruth, who, by the way, wasn't traded to the New York Yankees. He was sold for cold, hard cash, something to which then-Sox owner Harry Frazee was addicted.