£16,000 A YEAR
BABE RUTH’S COLOSSAL BASEBALL EARNINGS
BAMBINO’S NEW CONTRACT
A two-year contract at £16,000 a year with the New York Yankees was accepted by Babe Ruth, America’s leading baseballer, last month.
Allowing for world’s series shares this year and next, Babe Ruth’s income from baseball salaries and AA'orld's series spoils up to the close of 1931 may approximate the rather staggering sum of nearly £150,000. If his cheques for newspaper articles, advertising contracts and other outside sources could be figured accurately it would doubtless place the Babe as baseball’s only dollar millionaire player. Ty Cobbe has long been knoAvn as baseball’s millionaire, but the Georgia Peach’s million was made through investment of his baseball pay cheques in Avisely selected securities, his actual baseball income totalling far beloA\ r the Babe’s.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 945, 11 April 1930, Page 7
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132£16,000 A YEAR Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 945, 11 April 1930, Page 7
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