Frank Duffy (baseball)

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Frank Thomas Duffy (born October 14, 1946) is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop from 1970 through 1979 for the Cincinnati Reds, San Francisco Giants, Cleveland Indians and the Boston Red Sox. A 1964 graduate of Turlock High School who also starred in basketball and football, Duffy was inducted into the school's Athletics Hall of Fame in 1997. Duffy is probably most remembered for being a part of what is considered a lopsided trade between the Reds and Giants. On May 29, 1971, Duffy was traded along with pitcher Vern Geishert for young outfielder George Foster. Geishert, who had played briefly in the majors in 1969, never played in the majors again, while Foster developed into a feared slugger and an important cog in "The Big Red Machine", the Reds' dynastic team of the first half of the 1970s. Later that same year, Duffy was part of a second trade that is almost as infamous. On November 29, exactly seven months after the previous trade, Duffy was traded with pitcher Gaylord Perry to the Indians, with the Giants receiving pitcher Sam McDowell. In this case, Duffy was on the other side of the lopsided deal, as he went o

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