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Player #148: Jack E. Russell. Pitcher for the Washington Senators in 1933-1936. 85 wins and 39 saves in 15 MLB seasons. 1934 All-Star. He debuted with the Boston Red Sox in 1926. His best season was 1933 for Washington as posted a 12-6 record with 13 saves and a 2.69 ERA in 124 innings pitched. He ended his career with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1940.

Deveaux details the acquisition of Russell: President Alva Bradley of the Cleveland Indians was the next to be brought in by Cronin to talk turkey with Griffith at the late 1932 New York meetings. The Senators were playing on Cleveland's desperate need for a first baseman. Secure in his belief that Joe Kuhel would be around for a long time (which would prove to be correct), Washington would part with promising Harley Boss from its Chattanooga farm club and an undisclosed amount of cash for Jack Russell, the third pitcher Cronin had requested for his team. Russell at this time had an atrocious 46-98 record in the big leagues, but the 27-year-old had spent most of his career in the National League with the sad-sack Boston Braves. Griffith even managed to wrangle an outfielder, Bruce Connatser, from Bradley as part of this exchange. This would prove of no consequence as, Connatser, a part-timer with the Indians the two previous years, never again appeared in a single major-league game. (The Washington Senators by Tom Deveaux.)

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