Mobile Site You Are Here > Home > Teams > Franchise Encyclopedia > 1944 Trades and Transactions

1944 Philadelphia Athletics

Trades and Transactions

Franchise Encyclopedia: 1943 / 1945

72-82, Finished 5th in American League (Schedule and Results)
View League Standings and Leaders

Manager: Connie Mack (72-82)
Scored 525 runs, Allowed 594 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 68-86

Ballparks: Shibe Park · Attendance: 505,322 (5th of 8)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 97, Pitching - 100 · one-year: Batting - 100, Pitching - 101

BR Bullpen: Find or enter more info for this team (what's this?)

Promote your website or business by sponsoring this page for $10 on Baseball-Reference.com. Your message will replace this ad.

1943 / 1945 Trades and Transactions

Transactions listed are from November 1 of previous year to April 1 of the following year.

October 11, 1943

Traded Don Heffner and Bob Swift to the Detroit Tigers. Received Rip Radcliff.

December 1, 1943

Purchased Joe Berry from the Chicago Cubs.

December 13, 1943

Traded Roger Wolff to the Washington Senators. Received Bobo Newsom.

1944

Signed Nellie Fox as an amateur free agent.

February 17, 1944

Traded Barney Lutz (minors) and Sam Zoldak to the St. Louis Browns. Received Frankie Hayes.

April 15, 1944 (Standings)

Signed Al Simmons as a free agent.

May 7, 1944 (Standings)

Traded Hal Wagner to the Boston Red Sox. Received Ford Garrison.

June 11, 1944 (Standings)

Purchased Hal Epps from the St. Louis Browns.

July 6, 1944 (Standings)

Purchased Larry Rosenthal from the New York Yankees.

August 5, 1944 (Standings)

Signed Charlie Metro as a free agent.

August 17, 1944 (Standings)

Traded $35000 and 4 players to Milwaukee (American Association). Received Hal Peck.

August 19, 1944 (Standings)

Jo-Jo White selected by the Cincinnati Reds off waivers.

November 1, 1944

Drafted Manny Salvo from Oakland (PCL) in the 1944 rule 5 draft.

Drafted Mayo Smith from the Detroit Tigers in the 1944 rule 5 draft.

1945

Signed Joe Astroth as an amateur free agent.

Signed Bill Connelly as an amateur free agent.

Signed Bill Miller as an amateur free agent.

Obtained Cot Deal from Toronto (International) as part of a minor league working agreement.

The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. We attempt to update transactions throughout the season.

1943 / 1945 Trades and Transactions

Compare Other Links@google.com Report an error

Automatic Player Linking / Statistical Sharing Tool / Basic Player Linking / Data Coverage

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.

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

Part of the USA TODAY Sports Media Group.