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We’ve seen all kinds of strange trades in baseball.

We’ve seen teams swap managers. We’ve seen a broadcaster traded for a player. We’ve seen two guys dealt for each other between games of a doubleheader. We’ve seen the likes of John McDonald, Dickie Noles and Harry Chiti traded for … themselves (they turned out to be the “player to be named” in deals that had briefly shipped them elsewhere).

The strangest trades, though, are when human players are dealt for animals, food or inanimate objects. With that as the theme, here are 10 of the strangest trades the sport has ever seen.

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