Babe Ruth Trades and Transactions

The Babe Ruth trades and transactions seen below include all known instances where Babe Ruth has been involved in a trade or transaction of any type as it relates to baseball.
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime" - Babe Ruth

THE BABE ENDED HIS CAREER IN 1935 WITH A RECORD 714 HOME RUNS. SINCE THEN TWO OTHERS HAVE HIT MORE. ONE NEEDED 9,847 AT BATS, THE OTHER 12,364. RUTH NEEDED ONLY 8399 AT BATS. HAD RUTH BEEN LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE AS MANY AT BATS AS HIS RIVALS, HE WOULD'VE MADE SOUVINERS OUT OF 837 AND 1051 BASEBALLS RESPECTIVELY. I DON'T SEE A RECORD BEING BROKEN HERE. BABE RUTH IS STILL THE GREATEST HOME RUN HITTER OF ALL TIME. YOU CAN LOOK IT UP RIGHT HERE AT BASEBALL ALMANAC.

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Birth Name:   George Herman Ruth
Nickname:   The Bambino or The Sultan of Swat
Born On:   02-06-1895  (Aquarius)
Place of Birth Data Born In:   Baltimore, Maryland
Year of Death Data Died On:   08-16-1948
Place of Death Data Died In:   New York, New York
Cemetery:   Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, New York Click For Grave Photo
High School:   St. Mary's High School (Baltimore, MD)
College:   None Attended
Batting Stances Chart Bats:   Left   Throwing Arms Chart Throws:   Left
Player Height Chart Height:   6-02   Player Weight Chart Weight:   215
First Game:   07-11-1914 (Age 19)
Last Game:   05-30-1935
Draft:   Not Applicable
Babe Ruth

Trades & Transactions
07-09-1914: Sold by Baltimore (International) (with Ernie Shore and Ben Egan) to Boston Red Sox for more than $25000.
01-03-1920: Sold by Boston Red Sox to New York Yankees for $125000 and a $300000 loan.
02-26-1935: Released by New York Yankees.
02-26-1935: Signed by Boston Braves.


Did you know that during the physical, if a team finds out that the player received during a trade is injured they may return the player to the originating team within ten days from the date the trade was made and void the entire contract?

The Baseball Almanac trades and transactions database includes Rule 5 Draft picks, free agency information, voided trades, waiver picks, expansion draft data, amateur draft data, player refusals, bonus babies, and many other types of not readily found anywhere on the Internet.

Baseball trades & transactions, like the Babe Ruth trades and transactions seen above, are an evolving field of research where new discoveries are often found and new player debuts are added to the data set almost daily.
     

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