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This Day In Red Sox History: December 22, 1921
By Administrator | December 22, 2009
Material for This Day In Red Sox History is drawn from Bill Nowlin’s “Day by Day with the Boston Red Sox”
In an article on the recent trade that sent Everett Scott, Sad Sam Jones and Bullet Joe Bush to the NY Yankees to join recently-sold Babe Ruth with the NY Yankees, Ban Johnson labeled Harry Frazee “the champion wrecker of the baseball age”.
Boston newspapers were livid. Paul Shannon of the Boston Post exclaimed that the 1922 AL pennant had been “bought and paid for” by the Yankees, while the Post’s Neal O’Hara all but guaranteed that the Red Sox would finish in last (eighth) place” “Looks like Harry Frazee has given the Athletics seventh place for a Christmas present”.
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