Editing Harry Frazee (section)

==Other deals with the Yankees==
[[File:Jacob Ruppert, Judge Kenesaw M. Landis, Tillinghast Huston, Harry Frazee, ? Flynn, at Yankee Stadium, 4-18-23 (baseball) LCCN2014715915.jpg|thumb|From left, [[Jacob Ruppert]], [[Kenesaw Mountain Landis]], [[Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston]], Frazee, and [[Edward J. Flynn]] at Yankee Stadium in 1923]]
Frazee had every intention of using the money from the Ruth deal to get better players. However, his theater interests had not done particularly well since 1918, and he found it difficult to service the debt on both Fenway Park and the Red Sox. His cash shorts became even more acute after the remortgage of Fenway Park. He was thus forced to put the team's best players on the market in order to get cash.<ref name=SABR/>  Unfortunately, he found it difficult to make deals with the "Loyal Five" even after Ruth left for New York. With the White Sox' reputation in tatters following the [[Black Sox Scandal]], Frazee was left with little choice but to deal with the Yankees.<ref name=Stout>Stout, Glenn. [https://www.espn.com/mlb/playoffs2004/news/story?page=Curse041005 A "Curse" born of hate]. [[ESPN]], October 3, 2004.</ref>  Over the next three years, Frazee sold virtually all of the Red Sox' top players to the Yankees, netting him a total of $305,000.<ref name=SABR/>

Below is a record of the other trades (besides Ruth) that Frazee made with the Yankees from 1918 to 1923.<ref>{{cite book|publisher=Macmillan's|title=Baseball Encyclopedia|url=https://archive.org/details/baseballencyclop00jose_0|url-access=registration|year=1988|trans-title=Trade Section|pages=[https://archive.org/details/baseballencyclop00jose_0/page/2251 2251]–2709|isbn=9780025790308}}</ref>

*[[Bullet Joe Bush]]—December 1921. Pitched in two pennant seasons for the Yankees. Traded for Rip Collins (pitcher), [[Roger Peckinpaugh]], Bill Piercy, [[Jack Quinn (baseball)|Jack Quinn]].
*[[Joe Dugan]]—July 1922. Played for five Yankee pennant teams. Traded for [[Chick Fewster]], Elmer Miller, Johnny Mitchell, [[Lefty O'Doul]].
*[[Harvey Hendrick]]—January 1923. Never played for Red Sox; was in 1923 World Series with Yankees. Traded for Al DeVormer, who batted .254 after trade (Hendrick's lifetime average was .308).
*[[Waite Hoyt]]—December 1920. Traded (with Harry Harper, [[Wally Schang]], and Mike McNally) for Del Pratt, [[Muddy Ruel]], [[Hank Thormahlen]], and Sammy Vick. Hoyt pitched for the Yankees in ten seasons, and was in seven World Series (including the 1931 Series, with the [[Oakland Athletics|Philadelphia A's]]).
*[[Sad Sam Jones]]—December 1921. Traded with Joe Bush (q. v.). Pitched five seasons with Yankees.
*[[Carl Mays]]—July 1919. Traded to Yankees for players Bob McGraw and Allan Russell.
*[[Herb Pennock]]—January 1923. Traded to Yankees for Camp Skinner, [[Norm McMillan]], and George Murray. Pennock stayed with the Yankees until 1933, pitching in five Series.
*[[George Pipgras]]—January 1923. Traded to the Yankees for Al DeVormer ''(supra).'' Pipgras never played for Boston; his eleven-year career included three Yankee pennant seasons.
*[[Wally Schang]]—December 1920. Traded to the Yankees for Pratt, Ruel, Thormahlen, and Vick. Caught for three Yankee pennant teams.
*[[Everett Scott]]—traded along with Joe Bush (q.v.). Scott set the consecutive-game playing record it took [[Lou Gehrig]] to break.
*[[Elmer Smith (20th century outfielder)|Elmer Smith]]—July 1922. Traded to Yankees with Joe Dugan (q. v.). Was famous as first player (with Indians in 1920) to hit grand slam homer in World Series.

The above only includes the trades Frazee made to the Yankees from 1918 to 1923, when he was owner of the Red Sox. The ''Encyclopedia'' lists about 40 trades in all made by the Red Sox in those years, including to teams ''other than'' the Yankees.

It has been argued that the deals with the Yankees made a modicum of sense at the time, and only a stroke of bad luck turned them into Yankee heists. Notably, the players sent to Boston suffered a rash of injuries<ref name=Stout/>  However, this is belied by the fact that Barrow became general manager of the Yankees in 1921. He'd managed nearly all of the players who came to New York in these deals, and was almost certainly aware of who he was getting. When the Yankees won their first World Series in 1923, they did so with a roster dominated by players acquired via their trades with Frazee. Half of their starting position players, as well as four-fifths of the rotation, came from the Red Sox.<ref name=SABR/>