The Babe's monster deal; Ruth's contract set the standard.(SPORTS)(THE WAY IT WAS)(Column)

The Washington Times | March 8, 2009 | Copyright

Byline: Dick Heller, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The game's greatest slugger reached for the sheaf of papers and scribbled his name on the bottom line - George Herman Ruth. The date was March 8, 1930, and the Babe had just signed the biggest contract in baseball history: $80,000 for each of two seasons. Said his immediate boss, general manager Ed Barrow of the New York Yankees: No one will ever be paid more.

It was a terrible guess, but Barrow had no way of knowing that 79 years later the Yankees would be giving Alex Rodriguez about $25 million a season - or more ...

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