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Free Agent Transactions
11/09: Providence signs RF Mike Dorgan to a 4 year, $4,516 extension.
11/15: Cleveland re-signs CF Ned Hanlon to a 1 year, $1,400 contract.
11/15: Cincinnati signs C Ned Williamson to a 2 year, $3,720 contract.
11/16: Cleveland signs SS Arlie Latham to a 1 year, $920 contract.
11/16: Cleveland signs CF George Gore to a 2 year, $3,330 contract.
11/16: Boston re-signs RF Levi Meyerle to a 3 year, $5,650 contract. At age 37, these next 3 years could possibly be Levi's final hurrah. He is one of the remaining players from the inaugural season of the National Association (1871).
11/17: New York Metropolitans sign C Ezra Sutton to a 2 year, $1,070 contract.
11/18: Chicago signs SS Arthur Irwin to a 3 year, $2,610 contract.
11/21: Boston signs P George Derby to a 3 year, $2,385 contract.
11/22: Cleveland signs P Harry Salisbury to a 4 year, $3,900 contract.
11/22: New York Metropolitans sign P Fred Corey to a 2 year, $970 contract.
11/23: New York Gothams sign RF Fred Lewis to a 2 year, $820 contract.
11/23: Louisville signs LF George Wood to a 1 year, $1,110 contract.
11/28: Cleveland signs CF Roger Connor to a 1 year, $1,695 contract.
11/30: Philadelphia Athletics re-sign 1B Dan Brouthers to a 2 year, $3,820 contract.
12/01: Cleveland signs RF Harry Stovey to a 1 year, $1,460 contract.
12/01: Chicago signs SS Buck Ewing to a 1 year, $1,110 contract.
12/02: New York Metropolitans sign 1B John Reilly to a 1 year, $1,425 contract.
12/03: Philadelphia Quakers sign C Jack Rowe to a 2 year, $3,120 contract.
12/04: Cincinnati signs 3B Jerry Denny to a 2 year, $1,480 contract.
12/05: Pittsburg signs LF Fred Treacey to a 3 year, $2,250 contract with the last year being a team option.
12/05: Providence trades LF Orator Shaffer and SS Henry Myers to Baltimore for C Phil Baker and C George Baker.
12/06: Columbus signs RF Charley Jones to a 3 year, $2,475 contract.
12/09: New York Gothams sign P Mickey Welch to a 1 year, $600 contract.
12/10: Columbus signs LF Pete Gillespie to a 1 year, $675 contract.
12/15: New York Gothams sign SS Sam Wise to a 2 year, $1,660 contract.
12/17: New York Metropolitans sign P Jim Tyng to a 1 year, $590 contract.
12/17: Providence signs LF Frank Heifer to a 2 year, $1,460 extension
12/18: Philadelphia signs 2B Deacon White to a 3 year, $3,370 contract.
12/18: Columbus signs 3B Davy Force to a 4 year, $4,050 contract.
12/23: Chicago signs 1B Martin Powell 2 year, $2,290 contract.
12/26: New York Metropolitans sign P Bobby Mathews to a 3 year, $1,815 contract.
1/11: Cleveland signs newly acquired RF Harry Stovey to a 3 year, $4,380 extension.
1/14: Louisville signs P Tricky Nichols to a 1 year, $530 contract.
3/01: Philadelphia Athletics sign P John Cassidy to a 1 year, $515 contract.


Retirements
*P John Ward (22) (5 seasons ('78-'82), 147 G, 56-70 record, 2.95 ERA, 1061 IP)
RF Frank Thompson (35) (never got into a game in 8 seasons)
2B Joe Stoddard (35) (8 seasons ('75-'82), 2 games in 1879, went 0-1)
LF Joe Sheridan (35) (8 seasons ('75-'82), 1 game in 1882)
RF Joe Shaffer (35) (never got into a game in 8 seasons)
SS Joe Quinn (35) (never got into a game in 8 seasons)
2B Horatio Munn (35) (never got into a game in 8 seasons)
C Joe McCloskey (35) (never got into a game in 8 seasons)
2B George Keerl (35) (never got into a game in 8 seasons)
2B Joe Hellings (35) (never got into a game in 8 seasons)
RF Packy Dillon (35) (8 seasons ('75-'82), 1 game in 1882, went 1-2)
SS John Dillon (35) (never got into a game in 8 seasons)
3B Joe O'Neal (35) (never got into a game in 9 seasons)
1B Tom Miller (35) (never got into a game in 9 seasons)
1B Ed McKenna (35) (never got into a game in 9 seasons)
C Mike Ledwith (35) (never got into a game in 9 seasons)
C Charlie Reilly (26) (4 seasons, ('79-'82), 6-20, 2 RBI in 5 games in '79)
C Tom Mansell (28) (4 seasons, ('79-'82), .308, 15 RBI in 50 games)
LF Mike Mansell (24) (4 seasons, ('79-'82), .192, 9 RBI in 45 games)
2B Thorny Hawkes (30) (4 seasons, ('79-'82), .238, HR, 16 RBI in 47 games)
P Curry Foley (26) (4 seasons, ('79-'82), 63 G, 35-15 record, 2.39 ERA, 6 SHO, 456.1 IP)
RF Tom Loftus (26) (6 seasons, ('77-'82), 6-26, 3 RBI in 40 games)
2B John Haldeman (27) (6 seasons, ('77-'82), 1-3 in 15 games)
LF John Bunce (35) (6 seasons, ('77-'82), .241, HR, 34 RBI in 69 games)
2B Robert Stevens (35) (never got into a game in 8 seasons)
SS Candy Nelson (33) (11 seasons ('72-'82), .277, 210 RBI, 394 H in 371 games)
CF Tom Foley (35) (12 seasons ('71-'82), .269, 2 HR, 223 RBI, 325 R, 519 H in 519 games)


*career ending injury