Some sports decisions age poorly. Others rot into legend. The sale of Babe Ruth by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees in 1919 belongs to a category all its own: a single transaction so consequential that it didn’t merely change outcomes, but identities. It reshaped how baseball understood power, money, fame, and destiny. To imagine baseball without that trade is not to tweak a detail—it is to pull on a load-bearing beam. Let’s go further than the headline. Let’s li
