Christy Walsh

Christy Walsh was a pioneer player agent, as he represented Babe Ruth's financial interests and especially his endorsements outside baseball for many years. He had got his start in arranging for baseball players to publish ghost-written articles in their names in various players, a lucrative sideline at the time.

Further Reading

• Michael Clair: "Baseball's first agent was also its best legend maker: Babe Ruth's 'mythmaker'", mlb.com, July 23, 2021. [1]
• Michael Haupert: "The Business of Being the Babe", in Baseball Research Journal, SABR, Vol. 50, Nr. 1 (Spring 2021), pp. 7-15.
• Dan Taylor: Baseball at the Abyss: The Scandals of 1926, Babe Ruth, and the Unlikely Savior Who Rescued a Tarnished Game, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2023. ISBN 978-1-5381-7400-5