BABE RUTH / HARRY FRAZEE SP LEGENDARY DUAL CUT AUTO 1/1
2005 SP LEGENDARY CUTS 1/1 CUT SIGNATURES PSA JSA UD
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2005 SP LEGENDARY CUTS BASEBALL BABE RUTH / HARRY FRAZEE DUAL CUT AUTO 1/1RANKED #6 ALL TIME INSERT CARD OUT OF MILLIONS OF CARDS PRODUCED BY BECKETT MAGAZINEAUTHENTICATED BY PSA, JSA, BECKETT AND UPPERDECK CARD WILL NEVER BE PRODUCED AGAIN Card number is #DC-RFCard Serial Number 1/1 Look at the Scan Card is in Near Mint to Mint Condition Bid with confidence - I have a 100% rating with Ebay WINNING BIDDERS PLEASE PAY WITHIN 3 DAYS THANKS. WE ONLY SHIP TO THE USA.CERTIFIED FUNDS ONLY!!! CARD MUST BE PICKED UP IN PERSON OR HAND DELIVERY FREE OF CHARGE!! CARD CAN'T BE SHIPPED DUE TO THE VALUE AND NATURE OF THIS ITEM. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The Worst (Best for the Yankees) Deal in Baseball History Harry Frazee Sells Babe Ruth to New York Harry Herbert Frazee (June 29, 1881 in Peoria, Illinois - June 4, 1929 in New York City) was an American theatrical agent, producer and director, and former owner of the Major League Baseball Boston Red Sox from 1916 to 1923. On a cold January 5, 1920, Babe Ruth, 24, was sold by Red Sox owner Harry Frazee to the New York Yankees for $125,000. Harry Frazee was also given a $350,000 mortgage on Fenway Park by Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert. In four years as a pitcher Babe Ruth was 78-40. In 1919, he batted .322 with 29 home runs playing left field for the Red Sox. Harry Frazee had a home in Boston, but his main residence was on Park Avenue. He had made the comment that the "best thing about Boston was the train ride back to New York." A show business wheeler-dealer who owned a theater on 42nd Street in Manhattan, close by the New York Yankees offices, Harry Frazee was a gambler. And he was always hustling, scuffling about for a buck, always overextended in one theatrical deal or another. Frazee bought the Red Sox from Joseph Lannin in 1916 for about $500,000. The Sox won a World Series title in 1918. The team finished in sixth in 1919, and it started selling off its players to the New York Yankees, most notoriously Babe Ruth after the 1919 season. After the sale of Ruth, the team crashed into the American League cellar and would not finish above .500 until 1934. The Red Sox would not win another World Series until 2004, the third longest drought in MLB history.Harry Frazee backed a number of New York theatrical productions (before and after Ruth's sale), the best known of which is probably No, No, Nanette, which was once claimed, and later (questionably) debunked, as the specific play that Ruth's sale financed. He was the subject of an unflattering portrait in Fred Lieb's account of the Red Sox, which further insinuated that he had sold Ruth to finance a Broadway musical. This would become a central element in the Curse of the Bambino. The truth is somewhat more nuanced and dates to a long-running dispute between Harry Frazee and American League founder and president Ban Johnson. The dispute finally boiled over in the summer of 1919 when pitcher Carl Mays jumped the team. Johnson ordered him suspended, but Harry Frazee instead sold him to the then-moribund Yankees. Ban Johnson had promised Yankee owners Jacob Ruppert and Cap Huston to get them better players, but never followed through. The Carl Mays flap divided the American League into two factions--the Yankees, Red Sox and White Sox on one side and the other five clubs, known as the "Loyal Five," on the other. Under the circumstances, when Frazee finally lost patience with Babe Ruth, his options were severely limited. Under pressure from Johnson, the Loyal Five rejected Frazee's overtures almost out of hand. In effect, Ban Johnson limited Harry Frazee to dealing with either the White Sox or the Yankees. The White Sox offered Joe Jackson and $60,000, but the Yankees offered an all-cash deal--$100,000. Harry Frazee, Jacob Ruppert and Cap Huston quickly cut a deal, and Babe Ruth became the property of the Yankees on December 26, 1919. When Harry Frazee sold Babe Ruth, Red Sox general manager (soon to be Yankee general manager) Ed Barrow had told Harry Frazee: "You ought to know that you're making a mistake." Oh, what a mistake! Born George Herman Ruth on February 6, 1895 in Baltimore, legend claims that he was an orphan; the truth is his mother died when he was 16, his father when he was in the major leagues. His parents had placed him in St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys for his "incorrigible" behavior: stealing, truancy, chewing tobacco and drinking whiskey. Ruth's entire youth was spent at St. Mary's where his awesome baseball talent was developed. In 1914, he began his storied major league career with Boston where he won 89 games over six seasons before his sale to the Yankees. Everything about the Babe was excessive: his bat - 44 ounces, his frame - top playing weight of 254 pounds, his appetites - food and drink consumed in abundance, salary $75,000 in 1932 - highest in the majors. Just from a statistical point of view, what the man players called "Jidge" accomplished is staggering stuff. Thirteen times he led the American League in home run percentage. Twelve times he notched more than 100 RBIs. Eleven times he was the league leader in walks. Six times he led the league in runs batted in. Babe Ruth amassed 16 seasons of more than 20 home runs, 13 seasons of more than 30, 11 times he had more than 40 or more home runs, four times he hammered 50 or more home runs. During his 15 seasons in New York, the "Sultan of Swat" powered the Yanks to four world championships. The 6-foot-2, 215-pound Ruth revolutionized the game, changing it from a pitcher-dominated, scratch-out-a-run contest to a home run hitting, power pays. "The Babe" was the first to reach 30 homers, 40, 50, 60. From 1920-33, he slugged 637 homers, an average of 45.5 per season. From 1926-31, when his age ranged from 31 to 36 and when he was supposed to be past his prime, he averaged 50 homers, 155 RBI, 47 runs and a .354 batting average. The Yankees captured seven pennants and four Series with Ruth en- route to his 714 career home runs. He added 15 home runs in World Series competition. Ruth has the ninth-best average (.342) ever, the second-most runs scored (2,174), second-most RBI (2,213), highest slugging percentage (.690) and second-highest on-base percentage (.483). He ranks first in career walks - 2,056, one every fourth at bat. When the 1923 season opened, the Sultan of Swat already had 197 career home runs - 25% of what would be his lifetime total of 747. The 1924 season was probably Ruth's career year; he won the Triple Crown with these incredible numbers .378, 46 home runs, 142 RBIs). The most celebrated sports figure of his time, perhaps of all time, the Babe hammered the first home run ever in Yankee Stadium. Number 3 said: "I could have had a lifetime .600 average, but I would have had to hit them singles. The people were paying to see me hit home runs." "No one hit home runs the way Babe did," his teammate Lefty Gomez said. "They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands." The dark age of Boston baseball can be traced directly to the sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees. Beginning in 1919 the BoSox began a 15-year steak of losing campaigns, dropping at least 100 games in a season five times, and at least 90 games five more times. Last place finishers in that era nine times, they were a sad excuse for a baseball franchise. The golden age of Yankee baseball can be traced directly to their acquisition of the George Herman Ruth. The Yankees have won 26 world titles since the Red Sox won their last. # # #
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