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Babe Ruth, widely regarded as one of the greatest baseball players ever, earned an estimated $856,850 ($19,515,718 inflation-adjusted from 1934 dollars) over his entire playing career. [3] When asked whether he thought he deserved to earn $80,000 a year ($1,459,124 inflation-adjusted), while the president , Herbert Hoover , had a $75,000 salary ...
George Herman "Babe" Ruth (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948) ... Ruth's salary demands were causing other players to ask for more money. [75] Additionally, Frazee ...
Babe Ruth signed a new, three-year contract with the New York Yankees, providing a base salary of $50,000 per year (equivalent to $746,000 a century later) and a bonus of $500 ($7,460) for each home run hit in a game.
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The sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees for $100,000 still ranks as the most infamous trade in sports history. He became the best player in the sport’s history, retiring with 714 home runs, and ...
On August 11, 1929 -- 85 years ago today -- George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. became the first baseball player to hit 500 career home runs when he hit the first ball pitched by Willis Hudlin that ...
Gehrig, Tris Speaker, Ty Cobb, and Babe Ruth, 1928. In 1927, Gehrig put together one of the greatest seasons by any batter in history, hitting .373, with 218 hits: 101 singles, 52 doubles, 18 triples, 47 home runs a then-record 175 RBIs (surpassing Ruth's 168 six years earlier), a .474 on-base percentage and a .765 slugging percentage. [30]
In 2019, a Babe Ruth jersey from 1928-1930 fetched $5.64 million at auction, making it the most expensive pieces of sports memorabilia ever sold at the time.