By Harry Cummins
On this day 100 years ago, pitcher Babe Ruth was acquired by the New York Yankees from their rival, the Boston Red Sox. The price was record-setting at the time, $125,000. It represented the largest cash sum ever doled out for a baseball player.
Fast forward a century. The Bronx Bombers recently emptied their coffers once again, snatching pitcher Gerrit Cole from their modern-day rival for baseball supremacy, the Houston Astros.
This time the price....$324 million!!
Unless Cole can miraculously mutate into a home run icon like the 'Babe'........well....I am just doing the math.
The National Pastime in America ...will it survive another 100 years??
