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Red Sox sell Babe Ruth for $100,000 cash

Owner calls one-man team a failure; Ruth says he’ll only play in Boston

“Babe” Ruth, home-run hitter extraordinary of the Red Sox, has been sold to the New York American League club for cash.

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