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
Bob Miller (baseball, born 1935) Miller's final major league appearance was on September 18, 1962, in the second game of a doubleheader against the Houston Colt .45s, with Miller retiring the last three batters in the ninth inning of a game the Mets lost 8–6 at the Polo Grounds. The '62 Mets ended up with a record of 40–120, most losses of any team in Major League Baseball's modern history. Bob Miller (baseball, born 1935) Robert Gerald Miller (born July 15, 1935 at Berwyn, Illinois) is a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for three different teams during his major league career. During the