[NU Sports] Worst trade

[Mike Nolan]

> >I still think the worst trade (or at least transaction) of all
> > time has to be when the Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees
> > for $125,000 plus a $300,000 loan to the Red Sox owner.
> 
> You're right about that one.  What Broadway show was it that the loan 
> financed?

According to the Wiki page on Babe Ruth, it was the 1919 play
'My Lady Friends', not a musical but considered the predecessor 
of the 1925 musical 'No No, Nannette'.  

But Ruth had demanded a salary increase, from $10,000 to $20,000,
and Harry Frazee (the Red Sox owner from 1916 to 1923) was said to be 
a tightwad with his players.  That hardly made him unusual among
owners (pre Kurt Flood, I guess.)  Jim Bouton wrote that the Yankees 
used to give out World Series rings, and demand the previous year's 
ring back!  
--
Mike Nolan