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  • No, No, Not Quite: or, Again, The Real Story of Babe, Harry, and a Certain Broadway Hit . . .

    03/16/2012 4:18:28 PM PDT · by BluesDuke · 2 replies · 1+ views
    Throneberry Fields Forever ^ | 16 March 2012 | Yours truly
    Says Tracy Ringolsby, Hall of Fame baseball writer ruminating over baseball’s long enough history of ownership troubles: “There’s been troubled ownership in baseball since at least the days of Babe Ruth, who in 1919 was sold by Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee to the New York Yankees for $125,000 because Frazee needed money to fund his Broadway musical No, No, Nannette.” Say I: Aw, jeez, not this crap again. Ringolsby, customarily one of the game’s better writers, seems blissfully unaware that the No, No, Nanette myth (notice he couldn’t even spell it right) was debunked several years ago. As...