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[post_page_title]Babe Ruth contract with the Yankees 1920[/post_page_title]
Yet another Babe Ruth item, and there are several more to come… We all know how valuable this item is to baseball history. The sale of Babe Ruth, one of the greatest if not the greatest to play the game, to the New York Yankees in 1920. The beginning of the Curse of the Bambino. Ruth was sent to the Yankees for the small fee of $100,000. During his first season in pinstripes, The Bambino hit 54 home runs. The contract was sold in private for $996,000.