Purse of the Bambino, anyone?
Auction-watchers are expecting another windfall when the Yankees’ copy of the 1919 sales contract — the one that landed them Babe Ruth from the Red Sox — goes up for bid at Lelands.com. The Red Sox version last sold for $996,000 in 2005.
And four other Ruth player contracts — 1918 Red Sox ($1.02 million), 1921-23 Yankees ($537,750), 1931-32 Yankees ($384,000) and 1935 Boston Braves ($360,000) — have raked in $2.3 million in sales the past four years.
Ruth’s combined salary in 21 seasons as a major-leaguer way back then, albeit in much different dollars: $856,850.