1 trade every MLB team would like to have back
By Drew Koch
1 trade the Boston Red Sox want to take back: Babe Ruth
Easily one of the most infamous trades in the history of Major League Baseball involves one of the best players of all time. It just so happens to include two of the biggest franchises in MLB history which are also bitter rivals.
Yes, on December 26, 1919, the Boston Red Sox sold Babe Ruth’s contract to the New York Yankees. This will go down as one of the worst trades in baseball history and is unquestionably a trade Boston badly wants back.
The Babe, who was already a three-time World Series Champion while with the Red Sox, won four more World Championships with the Yankees. Ruth won the AL MVP in 1923, the AL batting title in 1924, and led the American League in home runs for 11 seasons while in the Bronx.
Babe Ruth is iconic and belongs on the Mount Rushmore of baseball’s greatest players. Ruth was a first-ballot Hall of Famer and was enshrined in Cooperstown in 1936. There isn’t a day that goes by that Red Sox fans don’t wonder “what if”.
If it weren’t bad enough that the Yankees became the premiere team in baseball with Ruth leading the charge, the Curse of the Bambino kept the Red Sox from winning the World Championship for 86 years. Since 2004, however, Boston has enjoyed some measure of success with four World Series titles.