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Yeah I know...and the fans were pissed and let it be known.

Rajah ended up getting over $100,000 from the sale of his stock he held on the Cards.

Of course the Cards got Frankie in the deal.

Hornsby had the nasty habit of making himself persona non grata just about everywhere he went from that point on. He lost his last managerial job when he had the St. Louis Browns in the early 1950s and so alienated the team that a contingent led by pitcher Ned Garver were ready to go to owner Bill Veeck with a petition to dump him...unaware that Veeck himself was planning to make that very dump. When the news came, the players threw a huge party.

Ned Garver has another interesting footnote: he was part of the first three-way tie for first place in MVP voting ever - in 1951, Garver, Yogi Berra and Allie Reynolds of the Yankees got the same number of first-place votes! Berra ultimately won the award (his first of three). Garver rated because he had had his career season in '51, a 20-game winner with a dead last club.