Babe Ruth Sale Contract (Red Sox to Yankees)
- Maker
- Babe Ruth / New York Yankees
- Year
- 1919-1920
- Rank
- 36 of 100
Babe Ruth Sale Contract (Red Sox to Yankees)
Babe Ruth Sale Contract (Red Sox to Yankees) by Babe Ruth / New York Yankees (1919-1920) is ranked 36 in the FLOAT 100 for Memorabilia. It sold for $2,303,320 in June 2017. The document behind the most famous transaction in American sports.
What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?
The document behind the most famous transaction in American sports.
The original transfer contract sending Ruth from the Red Sox to the Yankees ('Curse of the Bambino')
What is the best-sourced number for it?
- Figure
- $2,303,320
- Kind
- Realized at auction
- Date
- June 2017
Lelands. ~$2.303M.
This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it. Source.
How this is made
- The figure
- One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
- Realized or not
- A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
- Why no grade ladder
- Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
- Archive
- 2026-08-08