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Informationen zum Autor Lyle Spatz served as chairman of SABR's Baseball Records Committee from 1991 to 2016. He is the recipient of SABR's Bob Davids and Henry Chadwick, and Seymour Medal awards, and among the books he has written or edited are biographies of Bill Dahlen, Willie Keeler, Dixie Walker and Hugh Casey. Klappentext Trading, buying and selling players have always been key in building better baseball teams, and few things stir the interest and passion of fans so much as a blockbuster trade. This work exhaustively chronicles the Babe Ruth purchase as well as the more than 600 additional transactions made by the Yankees. The author sets both the players and the deal in historical perspective, explaining why the Yanks and the other club involved made the deal, what expectations the owners, general managers and managers of the respective teams had for their new players, and, for some, what the players involved thought about their old and new teams. This book corrects many errors in trade dates listed in encyclopedias and trade registers. Zusammenfassung The Yankees made the most infamous transaction in sports history! purchasing Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox for a reported $125!000. This work chronicles the Ruth purchase as well as the more than 600 additional transactions made by the Yankees. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsPreface I. The Early Years II. The Teens III. The Twenties IV. The Thirties V. The Forties VI. The Fifties VII. The Sixties VIII. The Seventies IX. The Eighties X. The Nineties Selected Bibliography Index
