American Thinker
•An infamous day for baseball
Summary
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On January 5, 1920 , the New York Yankees announced they had purchased the contract of Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox .
The next morning ’s New York Times erroneously reported the sale price as $ 125,000 .
It turns out that Harry Frazee , a theatrical agent and producer, actually paid Yankees co-owner Jacob Ruppert to take Ruth off his hands.
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61
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54
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31
Article tone
formal
Language
English
Language complexity
22
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not offensive
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Time-value
medium-lived
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