This July 1, 1949 Fred Lewis-for-Ed Sadowski listing is a malformed legacy composite and is retained only as source provenance. Authoritative Philadelphia, Baltimore and league transaction logs do not record such a trade. They instead record Philadelphia trading Ed Sadowski plus cash to Baltimore for Ron Livingstone on December 7, 1949, while Philadelphia signed Freddie Lewis as a free agent on December 29.
The legacy July 1, 1949 intake row describes Fred Lewis moving to Philadelphia for Ed Sadowski, but the authoritative team and league transaction logs do not record that exchange. The row is a malformed composite built from separate December events rather than a real Warriors-Bullets trade.
Philadelphia, Baltimore and league logs identify the actual December 7 transaction as Ed Sadowski plus cash to Baltimore for Ron Livingstone. Philadelphia’s transaction ledger then records Freddie Lewis joining as a free agent on December 29. Those two moves explain the names that were incorrectly merged into the July record.
TradeVerdicts keeps this row privately so the original intake can be audited and the correction can be traced. It is excluded from player-relationship construction and public-route consideration, preventing a fabricated transaction from leaking into the canonical history while preserving the source trail that created the error.
Because no supported July Lewis-for-Sadowski transaction exists, this row should not receive a normal hindsight value comparison. The correct treatment is structural: preserve the provenance, point readers to the supported December 7 trade, and keep the December 29 Lewis signing separate as a free-agent move.
Record Superseded — Philadelphia C-, Baltimore B-. This July 1, 1949 Fred Lewis-for-Ed Sadowski listing is a malformed legacy composite and is retained only as source provenance. Authoritative Philadelphia, Baltimore and league transaction logs do not record such a trade. They instead record Philadelphia trading Ed Sadowski plus cash to Baltimore for Ron Livingstone on December 7, 1949, while Philadelphia signed Freddie Lewis as a free agent on December 29.