Babe Ruth traded to Yankees to produce NO, NO NANETTE?!?!?!?

Ok, I just flipped to HBO and "The Curse of the Bambino" is on.

They were talking about when Babe Ruth was traded to the Yankees and from the jist of what they're saying it sounds like the Red Sox coach traded Ruth so that he could use the money to help produce "No, No Nanette" on Broadway?!?!?

Could someone tell me if there is any truth to this? I did just tune in and might have missed something. But, if it's true, I'm flaberghasted.

(P.S....1,000th post!!)

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Its a big legend, but not entirely true.
The owner of the Sox was a New York theatre producer, who wanted extra cash. He spent some of the money from Ruth on production and some on the team.
No No Nannette was not actually produced on Broadway until a couple years later. It was produced by a group that had the Sox owner as an investor.

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They also mention this in that new Drew Barrymore movie, Fever Pitch.

he's from my town...

The "curse thing" is, most definitely NOT overblown. While the idea of the curse may have been developed by Shaunessey, Boston fans loved to hate it. All you people have done for the past HOW many years is debate the authenticity of the curse, swear to reverse the curse, and claim not to believe in the curse while making plans to fish Ruth's piano out of a friggen lake.

Believe me, the rest of the baseball world didn't begin every broadcast of every play-off game asking if this was going to be the game to "reverse the curse"

Drive along Storrow or look at pics of signs being held by fans saying "Reverse the Curse" and try to tell me that Boston didn't latch on to the idea.

And I don't know what Boston you're living in, but the "Fenway Faithful" or the "Red Sox Nation" or whatever term we're using at the moment have never been known for their class or realistic perspective. Perhaps the reason that you didn't like the way fans were portrayed in that documentary is because it made the truth look a little more unpleasant than you realized. Or did you think that "Yankees suck, Jeter swallows" is really the true meaning of baseball?

If the curse was overblown, it's because Boston fans made it that way.

Ugh. I still can't believe that that band of trolls is wearing championship rings.

Loppy. first off let me say that the "Jeter swallows" is the most offensive thing I have ever seen on a t shirt and heard at a game.

I'm not sure where "you" live but you can't use the curse as an excuse for years of bad trades and bad baseball.
And I stand by my original point that the curse is an overblown media catch phrase.

BTW say hi to Jarred Wright :)

The only curse the Red Sox had was the incredible racism that their owners and managers practiced for years, refusing to integrate the club until long after every other major league team had. The LONG list of great, hall of fame black players they had a chance to draft or acquire over the years, but didn't, is stunning (Willie Mays was one).

That "curse" was self-inflicted by their own racist attitudes. They got what they deserved.

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It is true

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The curse is bull****. That HBO program is bull****. And all those bandwagon-hopping losers who would magically become Sox fans every fall so they could cheer for the "underdog" are full of bull****. I went over this in great detail in October, so I'm going to stop now.
A Curse Born of Hate

I didn't look at the Globe yesterday. But I'm sure I can dig it up today.

We already answered your question (which, I believe was also answered in the HBO show that you were watching)

No, Ruth was not sold to finance "No, No, Nanette". Itis an urban legend that has a few threads of truth.