Lex Anteinternet: December 26, 1919. The Red Sox trade Babe Ruth.

Thursday, December 26, 2019

December 26, 1919. The Red Sox trade Babe Ruth.

A look at the news in Albany Count, New York, December 26, 1919.

Elsewhere in New York, on this day in 1919 Babe Ruth was sold by the Boston Rod Sox to the New York Yankees. The price was $125,000, the largest every paid to that date, and an enormous sum in context.

The Red Sox had one five of the first sixteen World Series. They would not win another one until 1946.

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