A baseball sportswriter is comparing a recent Red Sox-Yankees trade to the infamous deal that sent Babe Ruth to New York.

Babe Ruth's 1918 contract with the Boston Red Sox has sold for more than $1 million, along with other baseball memorabilia up for auction in Baltimore.The contract was among about three dozen Ruth ...

The Red Sox and Dodgers have met in the World Series once before – more than 100 years ago. That meeting came in 1916, when Boston’s best pitcher was a 21-year-old lefthander named Babe Ruth.

Babe Ruth can still knock ’em out of the park. The late Yankees’ legend 1918 contract with the Boston Red Sox sold for more than $1 million at a baseball memorabilia auction in Baltimore on ...

On July 11, 1914, Ruth made his Red Sox debut and pitched the team to a win over the Cleveland Naps. Babe Ruth standing at Fenway Park in 1915. Ruth played for the Red Sox from 1914 to 1919 before ...

When the Boston Red Sox beat the ... the theory developed that the sale of Babe Ruth — by far the best player in baseball at the time — from the Red Sox to the Yankees, supposedly to finance ...

Baseball season is here. This week’s Smithsonian Snapshot celebrates the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, with this 1915 photograph of Babe Ruth and other Red Sox pitchers ...

An auction company hit a grand-slam when they sold off historical documents that belonged to George “Babe” Ruth ... on the field, Ruth’s 1918 contract with the Boston Red Sox changed ...

A rare piece of Boston’s baseball history is up for auction. An extremely rare photo of baseball legend Babe Ruth ... images of Ruth as a member of the Boston Red Sox that predate the offered ...

Just when we thought there was nothing new to know about Babe Ruth, we find that the ... The sale of George Herman Ruth by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees in 1919 is one of the pivotal ...

On Sunday, Bob Nightengale of USA Today lambasted the Sale trade, calling it the worst deal the Red Sox had made in over a century. "If the Babe Ruth trade was the worst in Boston Red Sox history ...

BOSTON (WHDH) - The official written agreement to sell Babe Ruth from the Red Sox to the Yankees is now up for auction. The lot includes the agreement of the initial deal for $25,000 and a letter ...