Talk:Doc Farrell

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Doc Farrell was my father. He had the distinction of playing for the New York Giants, the New York Yankees, the Boston Red Sox and the Boston Braves. He was also a dentist from the University of Pennsylvania and went from college campus to the Polo Grounds when John McGraw needed a shortstop to fill in for Travis Jackson who had an appendendtomy in the Spring of 1925.

He was one of the five players who were to be traded from the New York Yankee system (the Newark Bears) to the San Francisco Seals in 1935 for Joe Dimaggio. He refused to go and retired from baseball instead; the Yankees had to find 5000 more dollars to send to the Seals.