Then in 1908, Matty set the modern National League record with 37 wins in a single season.The Giants traded star pitcher Amos Rusie to the Reds on Dec. 15, 1900 in exchange for a young Christy Mathewson.

(Charles M. Conlon/National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum)National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Anytime someone got a hit off me, I made a mental note of the pitch. Frühe Jahre. He'd never see that one again." Where what happened yesterday is being preserved today. A reporter for the A few months after the trade, Brush went on to buy the New York Giants from Freedman, receiving everything he had set out to get in the trade. He did not win a single outing while giving up an average of 8.3 runs per games compared to an average of 1.85 runs per game his entire career previously.Mathewson, who passed away in 1925, was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1936 with the inaugural class.Rusie was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1977.

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He went on to pitch 17 years for the Giants, recording 372 of his 373 big league victories with New York. It turns out that Freedman was fully aware that Rusie’s arm was failing and his days were numbered.Christy Mathewson appeared in one game with the Reds at the end of his career, winning a match-up against Mordecai Brown on Sept. 4, 1916, in the final game of his career. Baseball trades & transactions, like the Christy Mathewson trades and transactions seen above, are an evolving field of research where new discoveries are often found and new player debuts are added to the data set almost daily.


Although Rusie compiled 248 career wins in just nine seasons, Freedman agreed to trade away the Hoosier Thunderbolt to Cincinnati in exchange for Mathewson.
Before the trade, John Brush, the Cincinnati Reds owner, was in negotiations with the New York Giants’ owner, Andrew Freedman about buying the Giants. baseballhall.org/discover/inside-pitch/mathewson-traded-to-giants Anytime someone got a hit off me, I made a mental note of the pitch.

"I always tried to learn about the hitters. (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum)Rusie on the other hand, pitched just three games with the Reds before calling it quits. It was the tale of two opposite ends of a career.Amos Rusie had starred as a dominating pitcher for the New York Giants for eight seasons highlighted by five straight seasons of 30 or more wins (1890-1894), while Christy Mathewson was an unknown 20-year old just drafted by the Cincinnati Reds for a price of $100.On Dec. 15, 1900, a trade between these two future Hall of Famers occurred in what turned out to be one of the most lopsided deals of all-time.

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