1926 Boston Red Sox Trades and Transactions

Transactions listed are from October 1 of previous year to April 1 of the following year.

• December 9, 1925

  Traded Homer Ezzell and Ernest Vache to the Detroit Tigers. Received Fred Haney.

• December 10, 1925

  Bill Wambsganss player rights sold to the Philadelphia Athletics for $4,000.

  Traded Doc Prothro and $4,000 to Portland (PCL). Received Emmet McCann.

  Traded Bud Connolly and Johnnie Heving to Toledo (American Association). Received Alex Gaston.

• Before 1926 Season

  Signed Rudy Sommers as a free agent.

• January 26, 1926

  Ike Boone player rights sold to Mission (PCL) for $7,500.

• February 10, 1926

  Val Picinich player rights sold to the Cincinnati Reds.

• April 7, 1926

  Purchased Topper Rigney from the Detroit Tigers.

• May 25, 1926

  Traded Tom Jenkins, Joe Kiefer and Buster Ross to Wichita Falls (Texas). Received Howard Fitzgerald.

• June 15, 1926

  Traded Howard Ehmke to the Philadelphia Athletics. Received Slim Harriss, Fred Heimach and Baby Doll Jacobson.

  Roy Carlyle selected by the New York Yankees off waivers.

• July 31, 1926

  Signed Jack Tobin as a free agent.

• August 12, 1926

  Signed Danny MacFayden as a free agent.

• September, 1926

  Traded players to be named later to St Paul (American Association). Received Fred Hofmann and Paul Wanninger. The Boston Red Sox sent Al Stokes (November, 1926), Fred Heimach (December, 1926), Paul Zahniser (December, 1926) and Alex Gaston (December, 1926) to St Paul (American Association) to complete the trade. (Date given is approximate. Exact date is uncertain.)

• October 1, 1926

  Drafted Grover Hartley from Indianapolis (American Association) in the 1926 rule 5 draft.

  Drafted Red Rollings from Mobile (Southern Association) in the 1926 rule 5 draft.

  Drafted John Wilson from Columbia (South Atlantic) in the 1926 rule 5 draft.