A salary equal to that of President Hoover is not enough for "Babe Ruth," darling of the American baseball world, and the hero of every schoolboy in the U.S. The offer of a contract of 75,000 dollars per annum by the owner of the New York Yankees, for whom the Sultan of Swat (as the baseball writers call him) plays, has been peremptorily declined, the canny "Babe" demanding instead a three-year contract at 85,000 dollars yearly.✱

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "A salary equal to that of President Hoover is not enough for "Babe Ruth," darling of the American baseball world, and the hero of every schoolboy in the U.S. The offer of a contract of 75,000 dollars per annum by the owner of the New York Yankees, for whom the Sultan of Swat (as the baseball writers call him) plays, has been peremptorily declined, the canny "Babe" demanding instead a three-year contract at 85,000 dollars yearly.✱" in the context of "Reuters, in "Baseball: Babe Ruth's Earnings". The Scotsman. January 8, 1930.

^✱See related comments by Brian Bell, Herbert Hoover, Albert Keane and Will Rogers in this section, as well as Ruth's statement on January 7, 1930, in Quotes.