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"The door stabs you on the way out."
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4. "RE: The door stabs you on the way out." |
I hope they got something better than a Broadway play out of the deal.
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06-26-12, 02:18 PM (EST)
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5. "RE: The door stabs you on the way out." |
One slightly-used altar from The Temple Of Walks and a vague promise that he'd be a Yankee by next March.
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06-26-12, 06:05 PM (EST)
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8. "RE: The door stabs you on the way out." |
The legend that the Red Sox traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees so the owner could fund No, No, Nanette is just that: a legend, with no basis in reality.Ruth had said he was going to hold out. He wanted a raise from $10,000 per year to $20,000. The Red Sox said no. The AL preident, Ban Johnson, hated the Red Sox' owner and discouraged teams from dealing with him, so he only got two offers for Ruth: Shoeless Joe Jackson and $60,000 from the White Sox and $100,000 from the Yankees. Ultimately, the Yankees agreed to pay $200,000 plus loan the Red Sox $300,000. It was an unheard-of price, especially with Ruth demanding SO MUCH money per season. The fact that it turned out to be a bargain makes people think that there was more to it. There wasn't.
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06-26-12, 06:40 PM (EST)
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9. "RE: The door stabs you on the way out." |
I'd never heard that story. Interesting.
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06-27-12, 07:58 AM (EST)
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11. "RE: The door stabs you on the way out." |
I don't really like baseball a whole lot, and don't really have a dog in this fight, but ESPN says that both your facts and my legend are not wholly correct.http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/bio/_/id/27035/babe-ruth Ruth wanted an increase in his salary following the 1919 season, but Frazee refused to pay him and decided to trade his star player. Finding a team to make a deal was a problem as Frazee had only two options in the Chicago White Sox and the New York Yankees. The White Sox offered the Red Sox "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and $60,000 for Ruth. The Yankees offered the Red Sox $100,000 in cash. Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees on Dec. 26, 1919. Frazee received $25,000 up front along with three promissory notes of $25,000 each at six percent interest. Frazee also received a loan for $300,000 against the mortgage of Fenway Park as collateral. The deal was eventually known as the "Curse of the Bambino," as the Red Sox wouldn't win another World Series title until 2004. It was claimed that Ruth was sold to the Yankees in order for Frazee to finance "No, No, Nanette" on Broadway. According to author Leigh Montville, who wrote "The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth," he discovered that "No, No, Nannette" was indeed financed by the sale of Ruth to the Yankees.
For my part, apparently, the story gets the cart before the horse. Frazee didn't trade Ruth to finance the play, but rather traded Ruth so he didn't have to pay him so much and then later decided what to do with the cash. For yours, I suppose it depends on the math. Perhaps the $75,000 at 6% did turn out to be $200k. Or not.
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14. "RE: The door stabs you on the way out." |
It was "My Lady Friends" that was directly financed by the Ruth sale, not "No No Nanette".
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