$150,000 IS RUTH'S IDEA SAYS REPORT
A report says Babe Ruth may ask the New York Yankees for a large yearly salary, but one of the club's owners says he will not get it and that Ruth has said nothing to him about next year's contract. The owner says he will not decide until February what sort of contract to offer, and the text notes that Ruth's previous agreement had run for three years and ended in the final game of the series.
Babe Ruth's next contract with the New York Yankees, and the reply of one of the club's owners.
New York, Babe Ruth may or m ay not make a demand for $150,000 a year as his salary for cavorting about in right field for the New York Yankees in the future, but if he does, the demand is already refused.
"He won't get it," Col. Jac. Rupert, one of the owners of the club, said when asked if the B im bino had asked for such a sum. 'The Babe has said nothing to me about next year's contract an l it is preposterous for anyone to say that he is demanding $150,000. I won't decide until February what sort of a contract I'll offer him.
The home run king's agree ment with the Yankees ended wh en he slid into second base in an unsuccessful attempt to steal that bag in the final game of the Wo rld Series. It called for a yearly salary of $52,000 and had run for three years.
Reproduced unchanged from The McCarthy Weekly News, November 6, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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$150,000 IS RUTH'S IDEA SAYS REPORT
A report says Babe Ruth may ask the New York Yankees for a large yearly salary, but one of the club's owners says he will not get it and that Ruth has said nothing to him about next year's contract. The owner says he will not decide until February what sort of contract to offer, and the text notes that Ruth's previous agreement had run for three years and ended in the final game of the series.
Babe Ruth's next contract with the New York Yankees, and the reply of one of the club's owners.
New York, Babe Ruth may or m ay not make a demand for $150,000 a year as his salary for cavorting about in right field for the New York Yankees in the future, but if he does, the demand is already refused.
"He won't get it," Col. Jac. Rupert, one of the owners of the club, said when asked if the B im bino had asked for such a sum. 'The Babe has said nothing to me about next year's contract an l it is preposterous for anyone to say that he is demanding $150,000. I won't decide until February what sort of a contract I'll offer him.
The home run king's agree ment with the Yankees ended wh en he slid into second base in an unsuccessful attempt to steal that bag in the final game of the Wo rld Series. It called for a yearly salary of $52,000 and had run for three years.
Reproduced unchanged from The McCarthy Weekly News, November 6, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from The McCarthy Weekly News, November 6, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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$150,000 IS RUTH'S IDEA SAYS REPORT
A report says Babe Ruth may ask the New York Yankees for a large yearly salary, but one of the club's owners says he will not get it and that Ruth has said nothing to him about next year's contract. The owner says he will not decide until February what sort of contract to offer, and the text notes that Ruth's previous agreement had run for three years and ended in the final game of the series.
Babe Ruth's next contract with the New York Yankees, and the reply of one of the club's owners.
New York, Babe Ruth may or m ay not make a demand for $150,000 a year as his salary for cavorting about in right field for the New York Yankees in the future, but if he does, the demand is already refused.
"He won't get it," Col. Jac. Rupert, one of the owners of the club, said when asked if the B im bino had asked for such a sum. 'The Babe has said nothing to me about next year's contract an l it is preposterous for anyone to say that he is demanding $150,000. I won't decide until February what sort of a contract I'll offer him.
The home run king's agree ment with the Yankees ended wh en he slid into second base in an unsuccessful attempt to steal that bag in the final game of the Wo rld Series. It called for a yearly salary of $52,000 and had run for three years.
Reproduced unchanged from The McCarthy Weekly News, November 6, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from The McCarthy Weekly News, November 6, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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$150,000 IS RUTH'S IDEA SAYS REPORT
A report says Babe Ruth may ask the New York Yankees for a large yearly salary, but one of the club's owners says he will not get it and that Ruth has said nothing to him about next year's contract. The owner says he will not decide until February what sort of contract to offer, and the text notes that Ruth's previous agreement had run for three years and ended in the final game of the series.
Babe Ruth's next contract with the New York Yankees, and the reply of one of the club's owners.
New York, Babe Ruth may or m ay not make a demand for $150,000 a year as his salary for cavorting about in right field for the New York Yankees in the future, but if he does, the demand is already refused.
"He won't get it," Col. Jac. Rupert, one of the owners of the club, said when asked if the B im bino had asked for such a sum. 'The Babe has said nothing to me about next year's contract an l it is preposterous for anyone to say that he is demanding $150,000. I won't decide until February what sort of a contract I'll offer him.
The home run king's agree ment with the Yankees ended wh en he slid into second base in an unsuccessful attempt to steal that bag in the final game of the Wo rld Series. It called for a yearly salary of $52,000 and had run for three years.
Reproduced unchanged from The McCarthy Weekly News, November 6, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from The McCarthy Weekly News, November 6, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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November 5, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Douglas Daily Dispatch, The Coconino Sun, Daily Kennebec Journal, Evening Star, and The Independent.
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$150,000 IS RUTH'S IDEA SAYS REPORT
A report says Babe Ruth may ask the New York Yankees for a large yearly salary, but one of the club's owners says he will not get it and that Ruth has said nothing to him about next year's contract. The owner says he will not decide until February what sort of contract to offer, and the text notes that Ruth's previous agreement had run for three years and ended in the final game of the series.
Babe Ruth's next contract with the New York Yankees, and the reply of one of the club's owners.
New York, Babe Ruth may or m ay not make a demand for $150,000 a year as his salary for cavorting about in right field for the New York Yankees in the future, but if he does, the demand is already refused.
"He won't get it," Col. Jac. Rupert, one of the owners of the club, said when asked if the B im bino had asked for such a sum. 'The Babe has said nothing to me about next year's contract an l it is preposterous for anyone to say that he is demanding $150,000. I won't decide until February what sort of a contract I'll offer him.
The home run king's agree ment with the Yankees ended wh en he slid into second base in an unsuccessful attempt to steal that bag in the final game of the Wo rld Series. It called for a yearly salary of $52,000 and had run for three years.
Reproduced unchanged from The McCarthy Weekly News, November 6, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
Reproduced unchanged from The McCarthy Weekly News, November 6, 1926, page 2.
This text reflects the language, attitudes and errors of its time. A Century Late publishes it as a historical document.
Text: read from the Library of Congress scan by A Century Late, within the article boundaries of American Stories (Dell et al., 2023), DOI 10.57967/hf/0757.
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November 5, 1926. The original articles, with the text exactly as it appeared and scans of the original newspaper pages, from that day’s editions of the following publications:Douglas Daily Dispatch, The Coconino Sun, Daily Kennebec Journal, Evening Star, and The Independent.
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