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Old 05-20-2022, 09:04 PM
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Originally Posted by oldjudge View Post
The sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees was first announced on January 5, 1920. That says that at earliest this card is from 1920.
Ruth was sold to NY in 1919:
''What Ruth didn’t know was that he was already the property of the New York Yankees. The papers were signed on Dec. 26, and cash had already changed hands.''

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/30/o...-baseball.html
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