resident Franklin D. Roosevelt called the men left behind in the Great Depression “The Forgotten Man.” Baseball had the forgotten man (or men) long before FDR coined the phrase for those suffering from the economic calamity of the 1930s. The sport’s forgotten men are a part of baseball history, yet usually are not associated with those moments or events. Such as one-sided trades.
“Bad trades are part of baseball. I mean, who can forget Frank Robinson for Milt Pappas, for God’s sake?” asked Annie Savoy in Bull Durham.
Robinson for Pappas isn’t forgotten, but what Annie and practically everyone else doesn’t remember is there were two other players involved in that trade made on December 9, 1965: pitcher Jack Baldschun and minor league outfielder Dick Simpson.
