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I took a look for myself (using a query of the retrosheet file imported into an Access copy of Lahman)... It seems that all players who debut from the 1950s forward are in there. Once you get back into the 40s, you start getting guys who are not, and that list grows quickly as you go further back. So the transaction file is probably good for expansion era baseball and going back a few years before that. That's certainly enough to make it useful.
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