Mobile Site You Are Here > Home > Leagues > MLB History > 1878 MLB | NL > Transactions
News: s-r blog:Cool Play Index Event Finder Tricks
1878 Major League Baseball Transactions
All Transactions
Transactions listed are from November 1 of previous year to April 1 of the following year.
1878
The Cincinnati Reds signed King Kelly as a free agent.
Jack Manning returned to the Boston Red Stockings by the Cincinnati Reds as part of earlier loan.
Monte Ward sent from Binghamton (International Association) to the Providence Grays in an unknown transaction.
1879
The Providence Grays signed Jim O'Rourke as a free agent.
The Buffalo Bisons signed Hardy Richardson as a free agent.
The Providence Grays signed George Wright as a free agent.
The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge
from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. We attempt to update transactions throughout the season.
See Front Page for time of last update
Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information
both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of
charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.
Win
Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and
co-author of The
Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball.
Total Zone Rating and Wins above Replacement calculations
provided by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com.
Full-year
historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary
Gillette of 24-7
Baseball.
Some
defensive statistics Copyright BIS, 2010-2011 
.
.Player head
shots courtesy of David Davis. Many thanks to him. We have only
selected seasons (players who debuted before 1960) for which we
believe the image has reverted into the public domain. We will
quickly remove any images for which that can be shown to not be the
case.Please let us know if you are aware of any
such images on this site.
Play Index
Loading Photos from the George Grantham
Bain Collection at the Library of Congress.
A Sports Reference Site:
About Baseball Reference |
Found a bug or have a suggestion?
Privacy Statement | Conditions & Terms of Service | Use of Data
Privacy Statement | Conditions & Terms of Service | Use of Data
Part of the USA TODAY Sports Media Group.