The Red Sox have made some legendary trades that run the spectrum of historic failures such as Babe Ruth and a number of other stars of that great 1918 championship team that became the core of the New York Yankees, to a few that stand out. This is one of the full up in lights great trades in Red Sox history that happened on November 8th, 1997.
On that date, the Red Sox acquired Pedro Martinez from the Montreal Expos for Carl Pavano and the famed PTBNL.