except for part of the 1956 season, when he went to Washington's Louisville AAA team for awhile in an unexplained move on his major league Baseball Reference page.
It took awhile to find what I needed to explain this move, and when I did, I reeled in a whopper. From the Daytona Beach Sunday News Journal of July 8, 1956...
“The Miami Marlins, fourth in the International League,
yesterday traded three players and ‘plenty of cash’ to Louisville of the
American Association for four new players. The Marlins obtained for immediate
use infielder Pompeyo Davalillo, pitcher Tony Ponce and first
baseman-outfielder Roy Hawes. The fourth Louisville man, outfielder Solomon
Rubenstein, will remain at his present club, Erie of the Pony League, for the
present. Miami will send pitcher Thornton Kipper, outfielder Mel Clark and infielder
Wilbur Johnson to Louisville.”
Now, Ponce, Dario Rubenstein (listed as such on Baseball Reference) and Johnson never made the majors, but all the rest of them had big league careers. I only found vague references to this transaction, along the lines of this on Mel Clark's Baseball-Reference page...
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July 12, 1956: Traded by the Philadelphia
Phillies to the Washington
Senators for a player to be named later. The Washington
Senators sent Roy Hawes
(July 18, 1956) to the Philadelphia
Phillies to complete the trade. (Date given is approximate.
Exact date is uncertain.)
That certainly doesn't cover the scope of the deal at all.
Roy Hawes has a bunch of other unlisted transactions to cover and we will do so on Monday!
Davalillo from www.baseballrealitytour.com
Clark from sabr.org
Kipper from
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