This day in baseball: Ruth responds to Frazee following trade
Posted: January 7, 2019 Filed under: 20th Century, This day in baseball | Tags: Babe Ruth, Baseball, Boston Evening Standard, Boston Red Sox, Harry Frazee, history, Major League Baseball, MLB, New York Yankees, sports 4 CommentsIn trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees, Red Sox owner Harry Frazee referred to the Babe as “one of the most selfish and inconsiderate men ever to put on a baseball uniform.” In response to this, on January 7, 1920, Ruth commented to the Boston Evening Standard, “Frazee is not good enough to own any ball club, especially one in Boston.”
Babe Ruth
It’s probable that the Babe was right.
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Indeed.
“And what’s more, the book for ‘No No Nanette’ is a ham-fisted piece of junk!!”
I haven’t read it, so I’ll take your word for it. 🙂
Interestingly, according to Wikipedia, the story that Ruth’s sale funded ‘No, No, Nanette’ is actually a myth. I guess it was ‘My Lady Friends’ that benefitted directly from the sale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No,_No,_Nanette