One vestige from the early days of baseball that we don’t get anymore is teams trading players to and from minor league teams.
Yes, players may get traded from a minor league teams and go into another organization, but that’s not really what I’m talking about. I mean that teams used to trade players to completely unaffiliated minor league teams. One such deal is how the Yankees got one of their greatest all-time players.
On November 21, 1934, the Yankees traded four players and money to be named later to the Pacific Coast League’s San Francisco Seals for a young outfielder named Joe DiMaggio.