Baseball History -- December 20

Complete entry for December 20 is at BaseballLibrary.com HERE.

Highlighted entries:

1978
Willard Mullin, 76, the nation's top sports cartoonist and creator of the "Brooklyn Bum," dies at Corpus Christi, TX.

The "Brooklyn Bum"?

This is the cover of the Dodger yearbook from 1951. This and other examples of Mullin's work can be found at bobstaake.com.

1926

In probably the biggest player-for-player trade to date, Rogers Hornsby is traded from the Cardinals to the New York Giants for Frankie Frisch and P Jimmy Ring. Hornsby, after 12 years in St. Louis, will play for three teams in the next three years. Hornsby and owner Sam Breadon had had an increasingly stormy relationship, and feelings between Frankie Frisch and John McGraw were equally as bad. Thirty years later, Hornsby will call the trade "the biggest disappointment in my life."

Hornsby and the Cardinals had just beaten the Yankees in the World Series in October of 1926. Then, disappointment.

Also, it isn't on this entry (which doesn't make it a complete entry, I guess) but former Timber Rattler Aaron Taylor was traded by Seattle to the Rockies for Sean Green on December 20, 2004.