{"id":12991,"date":"2025-03-09T01:33:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T02:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=12991"},"modified":"2025-03-09T02:45:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T02:45:55","slug":"onthisday-in-1930-babe-ruth-signed-a-two-year-160000-deal-with-the-yankees-with-gm-ed-barrow-proclaiming-no-one-will-ever-be-paid-more-than-ruth-how-do-you-think-mr-barrow-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=12991","title":{"rendered":"#OnThisDay in 1930, Babe Ruth signed a two-year, $160,000 deal with the Yankees, with GM Ed Barrow proclaiming: \u201dNo one will ever be paid more than Ruth.\u201d How do you think Mr. Barrow would feel about this 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth card selling for $4.2 million in July 2021?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OnThisDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OnThisDay<\/a> in 1930, Babe Ruth signed a two-year, $160,000 deal with the Yankees, with GM Ed Barrow proclaiming: \u201dNo one will ever be paid more than Ruth.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>How do you think Mr. Barrow would feel about this 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth card selling for $4.2 million in July 2021? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/39bfF6DaT3\">pic.twitter.com\/39bfF6DaT3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PSAcard (@PSAcard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PSAcard\/status\/1898562655670907166?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#OnThisDay in 1930, Babe Ruth signed a two-year, $160,000 deal with the Yankees, with GM Ed Barrow proclaiming: \u201dNo one will ever be paid more than Ruth.\u201d How do you think Mr. Barrow would feel about this 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth card selling for $4.2 million in July 2021? pic.twitter.com\/39bfF6DaT3 \u2014 PSAcard (@PSAcard) March 9, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":12993,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[49,33],"class_list":{"0":"post-12991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-grading","8":"tag-psa","9":"tag-x"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12992,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12991\/revisions\/12992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}