 But the minor league Orioles traded Babe Ruth to Boston and two other players, I think, for five thousand dollars because they needed the cash, because the Terrapins were taking fans away from them. And so Jack Dunn needed the cash. So there went Babe Ruth to Boston and then later to New York. And the rest, as they say, is history. And finally, on this date in 1960, Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird was published. And I remember reading that in elementary or middle school and.