Babe Ruth Yankees owners quickly pursued the purchase. Frazee sold the rights to Babe Ruth for $100,000, the largest sum ever paid for a baseball player. The deal also involved a $350,000 loan from Ruppert to Frazee, secured by a mortgage on Fenway Park. Once it was agreed, Frazee informed Barrow, who, stunned, told the owner that he was getting the worse end of the bargain. Cynics have suggested that Barrow may have played a larger role in the Ruth sale, as less than a year after, he became the Yankee general manager, and in the following years made a number of
Darrin Jackson City, California, where he played baseball in Culver City National Little League and Culver City Babe Ruth League, and was in the 1978 Babe Ruth World Series where his team took second place. Of this team, five went pro. He attended Culver City High School and played for its baseball team as well. Darrin Jackson Darrin Jay Jackson (born August 22, 1963) is the current radio color analyst for the Chicago White Sox and also a former center fielder in Major League Baseball who played 12 years for the Chicago Cubs (1985–1988), San Diego Padres (1988–1992), Toronto Blue Jays (1993),