Babe Ruth's "I had a better year" (1948)

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The Wikiquote has this as needing verification. In 1930, the Babe signed a contract that made him worth more than the President of the United States. "I had a better year," Babe supposedly said.
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Sports of the Times; Still More on the Babe
By ARTHUR DALEY. New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Aug 19, 1948. p. 29 (1 page) :
When her held out for $80,000 in the depression year of 1930, his sports-writing friends advised him to take it easy because, after all, he'd be making more money than the President of the United States, Herbert Hoover.
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"What's Hoover got to do with it?" he growled and then thoughtfully added, "Besides, I had a better year than he did anyway." He was right as rain on that one.