The Debut and the Greatest Trade in Sports History
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It was 97 years ago this year when the Boston Red Sox gave the New York Yankees a late Christmas present. On December 26th, 1919, Sox of Boston sold their star pitcher and emerging slugger George Herman “Babe” Ruth to the Yankees of New York for an eventual sum of either $100,000 or $125,000 (the exact amount is disputed), or about $1.2-$1.5 million today, to be paid in $25,000 installments. In announcing the sale to the media, Red Sox president and owner Harry Frazee said he would have rather taken players, but no team “could have given me the equivalent in men without wrecking itself.” So, he happily took the “enormous” amount of cash that the Yankees offered, quipping that “I do not mind saying I think they are taking a gamble.”
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So weird to hear Englishmen talk about baseball but I love it! Thank you so much.
Feels pretty weird to talk about it too :)
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So, next video will Daven talk about cricket?
I think they write these just to mess with Simon, especially when they start throwing a bunch of stats in to the video. They know he doesn’t care about baseball haha.
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Thissss is the video I was looking for, thank you so much truly 🙏🏼 as a young man from Boston I should know some of these facts I hadn’t known previously
Love the new channel. But damn... How many channels of yours I'm I going to have to subscribe to before my head explodes with information
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I love and watch all of your channels!
I’m addicted to learning new things and trivia. Your videos are just long enough to be fully informative, but not too long to become tedious. Keep up the great work!
' I'll sell the Babe , we can win without him ! ' said the Sox owner , ruthlessly.
finally binged watched all you videos on highlight history now back to everything else
Simon, as always; I appreciate all the effort you guys put into your channels. I learn something every day, a good percentage it seems pretty terrible. It's amazing how bad humans are to one another. But anyways, your delivery is spot on. I appreciate your objectivity, for the most part, and your point of view although I may not always necessarily agree with it. Your humor also. You really have a great delivery. Continued success.
Thank you :)
The Curse of the Bambino!
Great video! As a Bostonian, I got to know the story fairly well and was in the Fenway area when "the curse" was lifted. That being said, I'm also a huge nerd and not particularly into baseball so, aside from the spectacle, I am afraid the revelry was mostly wasted on me.
Good video but there were several glaring errors in the subtitles, most obviously at the end when you stated 'eight pennants and four world series' and the text stated '7 pennants and 3 world series'
Well Ive gotten rid of the Babe, said Yawkey, ruthlessly. 😁
can you make a video about operation gunnerside
I coulda swore there already was a channel in the TopTenz network that did videos about This Day In History. But then they slowed down.
Greatest for the Yankees, worst for the Red Sox.
The final redsox stats vary between what is spoken and the closed captions supplied.
Frazee was lying about rather taking players instead of $$$. The money he got from the Ruth deal was spent on his theater business rather than players.
I think that all of Ruth's baseball talent comes from the fact that his parents named him after a candy bar.
Similar to the legendary:
Mr. Goodbar Cornelius Pennymaker Von Butterfinger III
I think it was the other way around.
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Evan Fields You didn't mention William Bartholomew Whatchamacallit
Funny enough, when Baby Ruth candy bars first came out the company vehemently denied they named them after Babe Ruth, despite the fact that before launching the product they had tried to convince Babe Ruth to let them name a candy bar after him and he had recently become a superstar and they then marketed it like crazy at baseball games and the like etc. etc. :-) So, ya, they named it after him, but he said no to their offer so they just came up with a separate origin story of the name, which by the way was full of factual holes easily disproven. :-) -Daven
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My original comment was facetious, obviously, but I had never heard this story about the origin of baby ruth. I'm not surprised that they screwed over The Babe tho. Like my mother always said, "never trust the industrial candy bar industry."
no thumbnail?
Good video but I wouldn't mind more info in your videos. I know it's "highlight" history, but they seem to be over so quick. I'm left wanting more on the subject at hand.
Thanks :). We are actually planning to make these quite a bit longer in the very near future :).
Awesome! Thanks. I enjoy your presentation.
still the greatest left handed pitcher in World Series history.
Do Pete rose? That's a bumpy road
the fact that this video has no custom thumbnail is really bothering me
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Other athletes may better the Babe's achievements, but we must always remember Babe Ruth did it first. And he did it fat. And drunk.
Never will he be bettered. These 'other athletes' had more games, more chances, more oppurtunities, and smaller ballparks. Some also used drugs. He is the best ever
4:30 Thanks for triggering my epilepsy again!
quiet down snowflake
Loads of references to the "World Championship"....which of course doesn't exist.
Yes it does. Around 25 nations are represented in Major League Baseball and with some exceptions from places like Japan and Cuba pretty much all the best players in the world play in the Major Leagues.
@@HighlightHistory sure.....not one game against an Asian team on the calendar....typical Septics..."World Series"....of one country and a renegade Canadian team. Not world competition is it?
There are no teams anywhere in the world that are at the level of Major League Baseball teams. There are exceptionally few that could even compete with some of the top level minor league teams in the U.S. on any sample size of games. Japan has some that are the closest to Major League level, but even they aren't there. Essentially there are players on every Nippon league team that could make it in the majors, but most on each team couldn't. Many of the best from Japan choose to make the attempt to make it in the Major Leagues once they are allowed via the rules of the Nippon league or are posted by their teams, and even many of those fail. Conversely there are a lot of players who can't quite make it in the majors that find their way over to play in Japan with great success, though this is limited because of some rules in the Nippon league about foreign players.
And that's basically how it works. Most of the world's best players play in the Major Leagues and thus the Major Leagues represent the best the world has to offer for the sport. Just because all the teams play in the U.S. or Canada doesn't change the fact that the players on the teams are from all over the world and representing the vast majority of the world's best talent in the sport.
And if you're wondering why Japan and Cuba are the exceptions, there are legal issues with players coming from Cuba, though that's seemingly going to be worked out soon (almost was already recently with a deal between the Cuban government and Major League Baseball).
With Japan and some other Asian nations, they have rules requiring any player who plays in the Nippon leagues to play a certain number of years before they are able to leave without being posted by their team. The players could opt out of playing there at all, but this is risky as the path to a successful career there is easier/quicker than in the Majors. As teams aren't exactly eager to get rid of their best players, posting them early usually doesn't happen a ton, with exceptions.
Further, once the best players have played long enough to potentially make the jump to the Majors, they often are already well off financially, so the incentive of making way more in the Majors is lessoned. Further, they typically have families at that point so if they want to try in the Majors they need to either leave their families for 8 months of the year or so, or uproot them to a new country and new culture. And they are already playing in front of huge crowds, already famous, already making very good money, so the final incentive has more to do with just wanting to see if they can make it at the games' highest level. No coincidence that this is almost always the reason the players give when asked why they want to or did come to the Major Leagues from the Nippon league.
This all is a situation not probably going to change soon. The distance to European countries or Japan is prohibitive in potentially establishing Major League teams there. And even when successful leagues are established there, like Japan, many of the best players inevitably want to try there hand at the games' highest level, insuring that those leagues will never reach the level of the Majors.
There are scenarios in which it could change, but it will take a long time and a lot of effort/money to establish teams elsewhere that can compete on a large sample size of games with Major League teams. Until then, the best players from all over the world generally come to the Majors and thus it's not incorrect to call it the "World Series".
@@HighlightHistory This still dosen't make it a "world championship"....just an American Championship. When hosting a World Championship, teams from around the world compete. ..ie. World Cup football or rugby world cup, etc.
Red Sox owner took the money to fund a play called NoNo Nannet!
Nope.
It wasn't the greatest trade in history, it was the worst trade in history.
Thanks Simon, you're the best.
Thank you
Totally uninteresting, "most famous athletes in history " may-be if your born in the usa .