[Baby Ruth]

Originally Posted by jeffw3000

This also led to one of the most famous trades of all-time. Barney Dreyfuss owned the Louisville Colonels. He also was half owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Louisville was on the brink of collapse. On December 8, 1899, prior to folding the team, Dreyfuss traded Honus Wagner, Fred Clarke, Deacon Phillippe, Rube Waddell, Tommy Leach, Claude Ritchey, Chief Zimmer, Bert Cunningham, Tom Messitt, Mike Kelley, Tacks Latimer, and Jack Wadsworth to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Jack Chesbro, George Fox, Art Madison, Jack O'Brien and $25,000 cash.

Good times.