Questions
Some questions about these George H. Ruth Candy Company cards, if anyone is still paying attention to this thread. Perhaps this could become another separate thread for discussion if there is any interest. I found these cards as the subject of several long-ago threads here at net54, but several questions worth bringing up after several years come to mind:
Has anyone seen, know of, etc., one of the redeemed, signed baseballs?
Card reverses say, "a baseball with Babe Ruth's actual signature on it." Stamped, or a ball actually autographed in pen by him?
Who was the candy company that Ruth affixed his name to? A start-up, or a pre-existing company? Was Ruth being managed by Christy Walsh in 1928? From what little I have been able to find, the candy bars were chocolate covered peanuts and caramel/nougat much like the Baby Ruth bars of today. Which, by the way, everyone says were in no way named after Babe Ruth.
Were the candy bar wrappers that turned up in the 1980s real, or just more fakes?
He's not in a Yankees uniform in any of the photos. Why is Ruth wearing LA and what appears to be Giants (with the Giants-looking "New York" lettering) uniforms? Licensing?
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