Boston Red Sox player trade contract, signed “Joseph E. Cronin,” one page, 8.5 x 11, May 14, 1956. Official agreement between the Boston American League Baseball Company and the Baltimore Baseball Club, Inc., for the assignment of "Player John A. Schmitz…In consideration of the payment of Fifteen ($15,000.00) Thousand Dollars cash." Signed at the conclusion in fountain pen by Cronin, and countersigned in ballpoint by a Baltimore executive. In fine condition. A two-time All-Star, Schmitz had pitched 4.1 shutout innings for the Red Sox in 1956, before finishing the season—and his career—with the Orioles, tallying a respectable 3.78 ERA over 38.1 innings throughout the balance of the summer.
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