Babe Ruth, Jacob Ruppert and Ed Barrow March 10, 1927 Mid-Week Pictorial Photograph
Description
A color slide of the internal cover of the March 10, 1927 edition of the Mid-Week Pictorial magazine showing Babe Ruth (left) signing a 3-year $210,000 contract with the Yankees on March 4, 1927. Jacob Ruppert (right) is indicating where Ruth should sign. Both are seated at a desk. Ed Barrow (middle) is standing and overseeing the two. All are dressed in business attire. Ruppert owns the New York Yankees, and Barrow is the Business Manager. The caption underneath the photograph reads, "Babe Ruth Signs A Jucy Contract: It Covers Three Years At A Salary of $70,000 Per Year and the Bambino (Left) is Affixing His John Hancock to the Document. At the Right is Colonel Jacob Ruppert, Owner of the New York American League CLub and Ed Barrow, Secretary of the Club, Stands Between Them. (Times Wide World Photos.) Information written on the physical slide reads, “Mid Week Picto”.