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The RecordMajor League BaseballVol. I

Hall of ShameA catalog of baseball's lasting mistakes

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Hall of Shame

A field catalog of classic major-league blunders. The mistake is the subject. The person is not the punch line.

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Sequences checked against Retrosheet, the Society for American Baseball Research, and contemporary accounts. Where a legend outruns the evidence, the entry says so.

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Randy Johnson with the Yankees in 2006. The photograph is not the May 25, 1989 trade.

Front Office & Trades1989

Johnson for Langston

Seattle could not sign Mark Langston and sent him to Montreal for three pitchers. One of them was Randy Johnson, 25 years old and 6-foot-10.

Seattle Mariners · Montreal Expos