Don Lund was an outfielder for Brooklyn, the Browns and Detroit from the forties until 1954. That is when his major league career ends mid-season with the Tigers; but HOW it ends gets explained in this article from the Milwaukee Journal of July 30, 1954:
“The Detroit Tigers Thursday purchased outfielder Hoot Evers
fom the New York Giants and sold outfielder Don Lund to the Giants’ farm team
in Minneapolis.”
Lund finished his playing with Minneapolis that year. Articles from the time suggest that these deals were not related to each other despite the timing.
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George Lerchen played in two major league seasons; with the Tigers in 1952 and the Reds in 1953. I could not find how he got from the Tigers to the Reds, but I could find what happened to him after what seemed to be a nice 22-PA performance for Cincinnati in 1952. From the Daytona Beach Morning Journal of Dec. 10, 1953:
“The Cincinnati Redlegs continued to shift players
yesterday, obtaining Bill Powell, righthanded Negro pitcher, from Charleston of
the American Association, and selling Outfielder George Lerchen to Portland of
the Pacific Coast League.”
Lerchen spent a short amount of time at independent Portland before finishing his playing career in the Cardinals organization.
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Joe "Specs" Ostrowski threw for the Browns and the Yankees in a major league career that lasted from 1948 to 1952. He had a couple nice years up top, but at age 35 he could only manage a 2-2 record and a 5.68 ERA with the strong Yankees. His major league career ended with a sale to the PCL. From the Reading Eagle of Feb. 13, 1953:
"Los Angeles, of the PCL, bought veteran relief pitcher Joe Ostrowski from the New York Yankees."
Right to the point. He tossed 72.2 effective innings in 1953 for the Cubs' affiliate and that was the end of his pitching career.
Lerchen pic from
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and Ostrowski pic stolen from
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