They screwed Babe Ruth when he retired. He was promised a management spot (not necessarily a field manager, even if that's what he wanted) but they just cut him loose.
While I agree that there should have been some sort of deal in place to keep Ruth as a Yankee alumnus pro-tempore, you don't just dump Joe McCarthy, one of the greatest Yankee managers of all-time (#7 all-time in wins, and leading Yankee manager in wins all-time, and tied with Casey Stengel in World Series wins), no matter how much Babe wanted to manage. It means something that at that time, Jacob Ruppert's attempts to reach out and find a suitor for Ruth's managerial services turned up empty except for the Braves.
If anything, it was the Boston Braves who screwed Ruth over; Ruth was supposed to have Bill Parcells-esque control over the team, and quickly discovered that he was pretty much a powerless figurehead.
