Description: 1921 NY Times newspaper with front-page article on New York Yankees baseball slugger BABE RUTH being punished by MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL and commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis for involvement in a post-World Series barnstorming tour!! As Punishment, Ruth's WORLD SERIES check of over $3,000 was withheld by the commissioner ! - inv #9C-417 SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the NY Times dated November 3, 1921 with front-page article on New York Yankees baseball slugger BABE RUTH being punished by MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL and commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis for involvement in a post-World Series barnstorming tour!! As Punishment, Ruth's WORLD SERIES check of over $3,000 was withheld by the commissioner !! Ruth and his Yankees lost to the NY Giants in the Series, but the losers' share of the proceeds was still an incredible sum of money in 1921! As a result, Ruth abandoned the tour. FRONT-PAGE BABE RUTH history in this 1921 NY Times newspaper. Ruth punished by baseball and has his WORLD SERIES PAYCHECK withheld by major League Baseball!! What is very interesting is how small the World Series money to each NY Yankee was in 1921, 102 years ago !! After the 1921 baseball World Series, Ruth and teammates Bob Meusel and Bill Piercy participated in a barnstorming tour in the Northeast. A rule then in force prohibited World Series participants from playing in exhibition games during the offseason, the purpose being to prevent Series participants from replicating the Series and undermining its value. Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis suspended the trio until May 20, 1922, and fined them their 1921 World Series checks. In August 1922, the rule was changed to allow limited barnstorming for World Series participants, with Landis's permission required. On March 6, 1922, Ruth signed a new contract, for three years at $52,000 a year. The largest sum ever paid a ballplayer to that point, it represented 40% of the team's player payroll. Despite his suspension, Ruth was named the Yankees' new on-field captain prior to the 1922 season. During the suspension, he worked out with the team in the morning, and played exhibition games with the Yankees on their off days. He and Meusel returned on May 20, to a sellout crowd at the Polo Grounds, but Ruth batted 0-for-4, and was booed. On May 25, he was thrown out of the game for throwing dust in umpire George Hildebrand's face, then climbed into the stands to confront a heckler. Ban Johnson ordered him fined, suspended, and stripped of his captaincy. In his shortened season, Ruth appeared in 110 games, batted .315, with 35 home runs, and drove in 99 runs, but compared to his previous two dominating years, the 1922 season was a disappointment. Despite Ruth's off-year, Yankees managed to win the pennant to face the New York Giants for the second straight year in the World Series. In the Series, Giants manager John McGraw instructed his pitchers to throw him nothing but curveballs, and Ruth never adjusted. Ruth had just two hits in seventeen at bats, and the Yankees lost to the Giants for the second straight year, by 4–0 (with one tie game). Sportswriter Joe Vila called him, "an exploded phenomenon". Very good condition. This listing includes the complete entire original newspaper, NOT just a clipping or a page of it. STEPHEN A. GOLDMAN HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS stands behind all of the items that we sell with a no questions asked, money back guarantee. Every item we sell is an original newspaper printed on the date indicated at the beginning of its description. U.S. buyers pay priority mail postage which includes waterproof plastic and a heavy cardboard flat to protect your purchase from damage in the mail. International postage is quoted when we are informed as to where the package is to be sent. We do combine postage (to reduce postage costs) for multiple purchases sent in the same package. We list thousands of rare newspapers with dates from 1570 through 2004 on Ebay each week and we ship packages twice a week. This is truly SIX CENTURIES OF HISTORY that YOU CAN OWN! Stephen A. Goldman Historical Newspapers has been in the business of buying and selling historical newspapers for over 45 years. Dr. Goldman is a consultant to the Freedom Forum Newseum and a member of the American Antiquarian Society. You can buy with confidence from us, knowing that we stand behind all of our historical items with a 100% money back guarantee. Let our 45+ years of experience work for YOU ! We have hundreds of thousands of historical newspapers (and their very early precursors) for sale.
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