Today in Cubs History: 12-15
12-15-2003 - Traded Damian Miller and cash to the Oakland Athletics. Received Michael Barrett.
12-15-1997 - Drafted Roosevelt Brown from the Florida Marlins in the 1997 minor league draft.
12-15-1912 - Traded Joe Tinker, Harry Chapman and Grover Lowdermilk to the Cincinnati Reds. Received Bert Humphries, Red Corriden, Pete Knisely, Art Phelan and Mike Mitchell.
Baseball-reference has the date of the Tinker trade as today, Baseball Library has it as happening on the 11th. Either way, it ended Tinker's eleven-year run as the Cubs starting shortstop. Tinker evidently was unusually focused on his salary for a player in his time, and after 1912 the Cubs had had enough.
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