On this day in 1927, Babe Ruth becomes the highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year). He will go on to have a record season, hitting sixty home runs, eating two thousand, four hundred and fifty-five hot dogs, and sleeping with ninety-seven women. The home run record will be broken in 1961 (Maris) and again in 1998 (McGwire and Sosa); the hot dog record in 1977 (Welles); and the women record in 1962 (Chamberlain).