Babe Ruth's Suburban Boston Home At Bat for $1.6 Million

In 1927 when Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs and set the single-season record that lasted until 1961, he made $70,000 playing for the New York Yankees.  That would be equivalent to a salary in today's dollars of $911,000.  In 1930 and 1931, Babe Ruth was paid $80,000 by the Yankees, which was the most he earned in a single year, equivalent to slightly more than $1 million today.  

By David Houle:Baseball is a game of statistics. More numbers, percentages and ratios are tracked in baseball than perhaps in any other sport, and the "batting average" is probably the most common statistic of them all. The batting average is defined by the number of hits divided by at bats and simply reflects the percentage of time a particular batter has gotten a hit.

Ben Bernanke and Sir Mervyn King have much in common but like Babe Ruth and Don Bradman, they are playing different games, writes Robin Harding

Ruslan Tsarni called out to his wife for the letters. Zalina, he said, bring the box. Since Tsarni stood outside his suburban Maryland home on April 19 before a scrum of journalists and apologized to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings on behalf of his suspect-nephews, calling them “losers,” Americans have been writing in from across the country to offer their support to him, his wife and their six children.

Caroline Kennedy has just listed two huge parcels of land in Martha's Vineyard, with a combined asking price of a whopping $45 million, according to the Boston Herald. The empty lots are simply called "6 Red Gate Farm" and "8 Red Gate Farm," and are selling for $20 million and $25 million respectively.

A baseball jersey worn by The Bambino sold for more than $4.4 million Sunday, a record for any item of sports memorabilia.

The bombs that blew up seconds apart at the finish line of one of the world’s most storied races left the streets spattered with blood and glass, three dead, including an 8-year-old boy, more than 140 wounded and gaping questions of who chose to attack at the Boston Marathon and why.

BOSTON (AP) — The bombs that blew up seconds apart at the finish line of one of the world's most storied races left the streets spattered with blood and glass, three dead, more than 140 wounded and maimed and gaping questions of who chose to attack at the Boston Marathon and why.