red sox
On December 26, 1919, Frazee sold Babe Ruth, who had
played the previous six seasons for the Red Sox, to the rival
New York Yankees (Ruth had just broken the single-season home
run record, hitting 29 in 1919.) Legend has it that Frazee
did so in order to finance the Broadway play No, No, Nanette.
That play did not actually open on Broadway until 1925, but as
Leigh Montville discovered during research for his book, The Big
Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth,[16] No, No, Nanette had
originated as a non-musical stage play called My Lady Friends,
which opened on Broadway in December 1919. My Lady Friends had,
indeed, been financed by the Ruth sale to the Yankees.
