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Originally Posted by David Watts
Okay dumb question time. Weren't a lot of players sold to opposing teams back then or was most of the movement the result of trades.
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Both. In the very earliest days, player transactions were entirely done by sale. I just finished re-reading Harold Seymour's history of early baseball, and I recall him writing that the idea of trading contracts didn't receive official sanction until the 1880s or so.