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Recorded Trade
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Cleveland Browns and Indianapolis Colts
Even Trade Tier: major
Confidence: high
Cleveland signed rookie quarterback Y.A. Tittle before the 1948 AAFC season, but league commissioner Jonas Ingram shifted him to Baltimore as part of a talent-balancing program. Transaction histories date Tittle's move to April 14, 1948. This was not a normal negotiated trade for Cleveland compensation, and Charley O'Rourke came to Baltimore from the Los Angeles Dons rather than from Cleveland.