Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, March 27, 1994 TAG: 9403270149
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When asked by reporters why he should be earning $5,000 more than President Herbert Hoover, Ruth said, "I had a better year!" The contract sold for $29,900 at Christies.
Ruth's contract, a two-year deal signed in March 1930 with the New York Yankees, and other sports memorabilia brought in a total of $423,821 as 295 of the 453 lots up for auction were sold, the auction house said in a statement.
Alan Feinstein of Rhode Island bought Ruth's contract by phone. Feinstein paid $99,000 last year for a 1919 contract that sent Ruth from the Boston Red Sox to the Yankees. Feinstein said he has sold copies of it to raise more than $1 million for New England charities. He hopes to repeat the feat with Ruth's 1930-31 contract.
A Russian who helped Alexander Mogilny defect to the United States was charged in Buffalo, N.Y., Saturday with threatening to shoot and stab the Sabres wing unless he came up with $150,000.
Mogilny told police that Segey Pavlosky followed him from practice to a restaurant on Friday afternoon. Speaking in Russian, Pavlosky allegedly demanded $150,000 and threatened "to shoot him in the back and stab him in the legs."
Mogilny reported the incident, and police staked out his house and the Aud, where Buffalo beat the Hartford Whalers 6-3 Friday night. Mogilny, Buffalo's No. 2 scorer with 28 goals and 40 assists, was at home - officially, because of the flu.
Pavlosky and another Russian were unarmed when they were arrested outside the Sabres' locker room after the game, according to Erie County chief of detectives Gerald Mack.
Tommy Morrison, 39-2 with 34 knockouts, resumes his boxing comeback tonight at the Tulsa (Okla.) Fairgrounds Pavilion against Bryan "Bam Bam" Scott of Kansas City, Mo., who is undefeated in 13 fights.
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