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Despite his suspension, Ruth started his 1922 season on May 20 as the Yankees' new on-field captain. But five days later, he was ejected from a game for throwing dirt on an umpire, and then climbed into the stands to confront a heckler; Ruth was subsequently stripped of the captaincy. In his shortened season, Ruth appeared in 110 games, hit 35 home runs and drove in 99 runs. Despite Ruth's partial absence, the Yankees still made it to the 1922 World Series. Ruth had just two hits in seventeen at-bats, and the Yankees lost to the Giants for the second straight year.
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Early in the 1920 season, Ruth was filming a movie titled Headin' Home. During the shooting on location in New York, Ruth was stung by an insect and his wrist swelled. A physician had to make an incision to drain fluid and reduce the swelling. Ruth missed six games. This information comes from SABR member Jim McLauchlin.
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Ruth went 24-13 with a 2.01 ERA and 6 shutouts in 1917, and hit .325, but the Sox finished second, nine games behind the Chicago White Sox. Ruth's most memorable game of the season was one he had very little part in playing. On June 23 against the Washington Senators, after walking the leadoff hitter, Ruth erupted in anger, was ejected, and threw a punch at the umpire (he'd be suspended for 10 games). Ernie Shore came into the game as an impromptu replacement, and pitched a perfect game the rest of the way. Ruth's outburst was an example of self-discipline problems that plagued Ruth throughout his career, and is regarded as the primary reason (other than financial) that Frazee was willing to sell him to the Yankees two years later.
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1919 was not a happy season for the Red Sox: in spite of Ruth's remarkable hitting, the Red Sox finished with a 66-71 record, and his salary demands were becoming excessive. On February 28, 1920 Red Sox owner Harry Frazee agreed to sell Ruth to the New York Yankees for $ 125,000 - an astronomical figure for the time. Frazee was quoted as saying that: "Ruth's home runs are more spectacular than useful". Privately, he thought that Ruth's hard-living ways and general stubborness would bring his career to a quick end. He could not have been more wrong, and that sale would turn around the history of two franchises.
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Following the 1919 season, Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold Ruth to the New York Yankees to raise money for his Broadway theatrical productions. The sale price of $125,000 was more than double what any team had paid for any baseball player prior to that time, but it would prove to be one of the worst business decisions in history. Prior to the trade, the Red Sox had won five of the modern, post-1903, World Series. The Yankees had never appeared in one, let alone won one. It took the Red Sox until 2004 to win their sixth World Series. With Ruth, the Yankees won their first pennant in 1921, won another in 1922, and their first World Series in 1923.
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Factual errors: The movie depicts the Yankees winning the 1923 World Series on a game six, bottom-of-the-ninth, walk-off home run by Babe Ruth. In fact, Ruth hit his home run in the top of the first inning of a 6-4 Yankees win. more
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