The year was 1957. The Brooklyn Dodgers were getting ready to move to the west coast the following year, along with their rivals, the New York Giants. Before that happened though, they were a part of one of the oddest trades in the sports history.
On February 21, 1957 the Brooklyn Dodgers trade the Chicago Cubs their minor league team in Forth Worth, TX for the Cubs' minor league team in Los Angeles. Not a player or two, but the entire 25-man roster. This was convenient for the Dodgers, with their impending move to Los Angeles, and the Cubs must have just felt a need for new blood in their system.
Not the strangest trade in baseball history, but probably the largest!
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