| The Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees after the 1919 season. Red Sox owner
Harry Frazee received $100,000 and a $300,000 loan from Colonels Jacob Ruppert
and Tillinghast L'Hommidieu Huston for the 24-year-old Ruth, who had hit a
record 29 homers that previous season. Frazee compounded his sin by saying,
"Ruth had become simply impossible, and the Boston club could no longer put up
with his eccentricities. I think the Yankees are taking a
gamble."
--From "Really Big Deals", Sports Illustrated, August 22, 1988, by
Steve
Wulf |
