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Originally Posted by GasHouseGang
I just read something that I don't think I had ever seen before.
"In 1947, DiMaggio won his third MVP award and his sixth World Series with the Yankees. That year, Boston Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey and Yankees GM Larry MacPhail verbally agreed to trade DiMaggio for Ted Williams, but the trade was cancelled when MacPhail refused to include Yogi Berra."
Talk about a blockbuster trade. How do you think that would have changed things for both teams?
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Since time and space are not subject to human deal-making, no one could possibly foresee the consequences of such a trade, but I like to think that Williams would soon become so fed up and infuriated with the NY press that he would reenter the Marine Corps in 1950 and stay there until the Yankees agreed to trade him to the Cleveland Indians. Berra would probably enjoy a productive career in Boston, and I imagine DiMaggio prolonging his career into the mid-50's just to stick it to MacPhail and pad his WS stats with the Sox. Meanwhile, Frank Costanza would succeed MacPhail as Yankees GM in 1953 and agree to a Williams for Rudy Regalado swap that NY sports writers and fans lament to this day.
