BOSTON NEWSPAPER REPORTS LOCAL PURCHASE OF BABE RUTH [BASEBALL]. [RUTH, George Herman ?Babe? (1895-1948), association]. The Boston Post. Boston, MA, January 7, 1920. 20 folio pages on large folded leaves. Each page approximately 568 x 422 mm. Pages toned, brittle, all pages loose with tears at central fold, chipped, with numerous marginal tears, two pages with marginal tape repairs. A hometown newspaper account of the sale of Babe Ruth by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees on p. 1 (once referred in the article by their unofficial nickname, the ?New York Americans?): ?Babe Agrees to Play in N. Y. / Manager Huggins Claims to Have His Word / ? Miller Huggins, manager of the New York Americans, left for home today, announcing before his departure that he had closed with ?Babe? Ruth to play with New York this year.?