{"id":2627,"date":"2005-03-13T15:39:30","date_gmt":"2005-03-13T20:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2022-10-09T16:17:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T20:17:13","slug":"the-bambinos-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2627","title":{"rendered":"The Bambino&#8217;s contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/nm\/al_baberuth_dc\">June 10 auction at Sotheby&#8217;s of baseball memorabilia<\/a> &#8211; including the 1920 contract, selling Babe Ruth to the Yankees &#8211; the beginning of the almost-century-long misery of Boston fans (I swiped the picture from Yahoo &#8211; see an image of it below. Love those old manual typewriters!)<\/p>\n<p>I would love to be at Sotheby&#8217;s on that day, just to watch.  Does anyone know anything about that?  Is there a &#8220;gallery&#8221; for us proletariat types?  I&#8217;d love to be there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 10 auction at Sotheby&#8217;s of baseball memorabilia &#8211; including the 1920 contract, selling Babe Ruth to the Yankees &#8211; the beginning of the almost-century-long misery of Boston fans (I swiped the picture from Yahoo &#8211; see an image of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2627\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2401,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178310,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions\/178310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}