Alexander Francis "Seldom" Beaton (born April 28, 1953) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player who played 153 games in the World Hockey Association with the Cincinnati Stingers, Edmonton Oilers, and Birmingham Bulls from 1975 to 1978 and 25 games in the National Hockey League with the New York Rangers from 1979 to 1980.
Notoriously, Beaton was traded in 1982 by the New York Islanders to the Minnesota North Stars, in exchange for a steak dinner.[1][2]
I kid you not – when Bill Torrey was constructing the Islanders' dynasty of the 1980s, he traded minor leaguer Frank Beaton – ostensibly as a favor to his North Stars GM buddy Lou Nanne – in exchange for dinner at the posh Manhattan steakhouse, Palm ... Bow Tie Bill revealed that the dinner bill totalled $380, which was big bucks in those days.