Forty-five years ago, Major League Baseball went through the most interesting November in its history to date. Imagine, if you will, a month that contained an expansion draft for two new major league teams, the signings of the first free agents from the first free agent class, and a trade involving exchanging a player (Manny Sanguillen) for a manager (Chuck Tanner). The number of November 1976 baseball transactions dwarfed the number of November 1975 transactions, 127-11. I can't imagine what it was like for veteran baseball fans who had grown accustomed to the in-season and off-season rhythms of baseball for years if not decades. Probably a lot of grousing about entitled ballplayers was involved. I was 11. I had just started following baseball news, picking it up only a year later with the first free agent rumblings involving Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally and my team's big trade with the Braves as the Dodgers acquired Dusty Baker. So, all of the action in Novem...
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