{"id":953,"date":"2015-10-16T01:22:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T01:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning201314\/?p=953"},"modified":"2015-10-16T01:22:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T01:22:52","slug":"when-babe-ruth-was-sold-to-the-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/2015\/10\/16\/when-babe-ruth-was-sold-to-the-yankees\/","title":{"rendered":"When Babe Ruth was Sold to the Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Bryce Bridgewater<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In our first visit to the Hall of Fame we encountered many fascinating pieces of baseball history. I think the most interesting and captivating part of the day was the tour and talk with head librarian Jim Gates. The baseball insight and knowledge that Mr. Gates had on the information contained in the museum was amazing, and might even be helpful to some papers for later. Whether it was the earliest baseball rulebook formed or<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning201314\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/10\/RuthSaleEdited.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-957\" alt=\"RuthSaleEdited\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning201314\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/10\/RuthSaleEdited-300x128.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/10\/RuthSaleEdited-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/10\/RuthSaleEdited-1024x439.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/10\/RuthSaleEdited.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> his story of Charlie Sheen visiting Cooperstown, Gates had our total attention for the entire presentation. Easily my favorite was the Babe Ruth artifact. The card that Red Sox owner, Harry Frazee, used to sell Ruth\u2019s rights to the Yankees was presented to us. Being a dedicated Red Sox fan, it was hard to see the piece of paper that sold arguably the best player in the history of the game to the most-hated rival. Mr. Gates also explained that Ruth was primarily used as a pitcher for the Red Sox, another blunder that makes me cringe at the departure of the Babe. Nevertheless, the history and condition of the artifact was truly fascinating and almost indescribable. This experience made me think of all the history and culture that the museum represents, which was also indescribable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bryce Bridgewater \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In our first visit to the Hall of Fame we encountered many fascinating pieces of baseball history. I think the most interesting and captivating part of the day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-baseball-american-identity"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/10\/Ruth-Sale-1024x768.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":959,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}