Show Any & All Things of the Bambino!
 

After all of the "Show Your" threads I've started over the last 2+ years, I just realized that I never started one for the Babe. Just how absurd is that!

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Nearly won that image some years ago Jimmy. Terrific shot.

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Final homerun...over the rightfield roof at Forbes Field!

The Babe
 

O.K. Jimmy I will play! Some Pics Ive shown before and a few I didnt. Some of my pins. And a small baseball bat pin with a ruth autograph cut into the metal.

A few things...

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David,
Every time I see that first ball you posted my Jaw drops to the ground!:eek::eek: Great Piece! And I know soon Jimmy Will have to put on his new Babe Red Sox Photos just to keep up with that Ball!!!;);) Love ya Jimmy my friend!;);)

Thanks, Al. I love that ball, too. Ya wanna know the beauty part? No cert!

BTW, those 1927 photos are stunning!

Babe Ruth
 

This first item I've never seen before I purchased it in 04 and haven't seen it since. It came from the online portion of Halper's sale. I'd say it's about 10 inches tall and the top of the baseball was designed to be a diecut sort of piece that was never used. The second item is an unused membership card and envelope to the Babe's Baseball Club.

great stuff guys
 

Guys- some great stuff so far. Thanks for sharing.....

David- that might be the nicest signed Ruth ball I have ever seen. It can't be real without a cert though? :eek:

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:eek:WoW!:eek: Absolutely KILLER Ruth stuff from each & every one of you!

If any of you guys ever want to trade and/or sell some of your terrific Ruth photos... you know where to find me.

Here's a circa 1930 Punch Board featuring Babe and the usual suspects. From the Bill Mastro Collection...

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Leon<
Cert or no cert, and I dont even care if its Fake!:D:D I WANT IT!!!!!!

Well, October has been the slowest month in a long time for me, so I figured I'd dig out a previously unposted Ruth pic. I also am putting up a pic I got from Jimmy.(Nice to have you back buddy!)

A Burke. I think it's a 60's era print. 5x7. Pic is a lot sharper in person
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1927 type 1 from Underwood & Underwood. 7x9
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I cannot afford vintage Bambino related items. These two news photos are the only such items I have of Ruth from his playing days. The first is from 1934 tour of Japan. The second one was taken on July 22, 1926 when he caught caught a baseball that was dropped from an airplane at Mitchell Field in New York.

I purchased this from the Mastro collection.

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Well Mark. You're the one to blame for pulling me back in. ;)

From 1927. Here's one of my favorites...

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Author George Vecsey had this to say about the larger than life iconic ballplayer...

"To this day, I still love talking about, reading about, writing about the Babe. He transcends the decades, the styles, the changes, the races, the money. He is America's beloved prodigal bad-boy son. He is baseball."

I would imagine that the majority of baby-boomer men feel the same way. I know I do...


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Well Jimmy,
I feel like I'm about to get your best Pacino.
"Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in."
Mark

~1931 Japanese language edition of Babe Ruth, How to Play Baseball, with dust jacket

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One more. Signed "Babe Ruth's Own Book..."

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Bad @$$, David! Bad @$$ David! :)

A D&M G41 glove, Spalding glove box, Reach glove box and Reach glove hang tag.

the quintessential Babe Ruth photo...the original sold for over $30,000

I love this also...a mosaic of Ruths face made from those tiny 1991-1993 Topps micro baseball cards. the farther back you get the more it looks like him.

1920 Babe Ruth fiction

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Wearing a Sox cap!..Great card Jay

Babe Bust & Book

Boy Jerry. That Glove, Hang Tag, and Boxes are just fabulous! Can't get over how White that glove is.

My Bookend Babes. Conlon on the left and Burke on the right...

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1927 Yankee Team negative from Henry Yee

Interesting 1930s item...

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In honor of Albert last night, here is a scorecard from one of Babe's 3 HR WS games :

Great scorebook Doug- congrats!!
Those bombs that Albert hit last night were AMAZING, BTW!! I wonder how far two of those would have ended up traveling if the stadium didn't get in the way. He torched them!!

Signed grocery receipt.

Ruth and Hornsby circa 1933 ?

Hey Roy,

I can't speak for the autographs, but the image is definitely from '21. Nice piece!

Graig

The King of Clout.

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Vintage Backstrom painting (not one of his best)
Babe Ruth sheet music with pinback

Greg

LMAO! That's classic Mark. :D

Here's the killer Babe that I got in a monster trade with the above mentioned Mark just a few months ago. Easily the fairest trade I've ever been involved in. Thanks again Mark...

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Question about this picture or more directly, the bat Babe is carrying. Does that knob have a notch out of it or is that something on the photo itself? I know it sounds odd to even ask but given todays players, an imperfection on the knob with a chunck missing would cause the bat to be discarded. I was kinda curious to see this especially in a Ruth bat.

I'll betcha Jimmy would like to find that Ruth bat with the piece of the knob missing as his ultimate Big Bam companion piece!! :D

After looking through a pair of 10x goggles, it doesn't look like a chunk out of the knob at all. It appears to be a white dot that was on the negative not the bat. The scratch that you see to the right of Babe is also from the negative and not on the photo itself. The way that Babe griped his bats, all the way down to the knob, I couldn't see him feeling comfortable it there was a notch in the knob.

Here are a few pieces from his 1927 movie - "Babe Comes Home"

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Didn't want to let this thread die, as I believe people are holding back. I know there's a lot more great Bambino stuff out there. Let's see if we can give this one some "legs" (as it deserved more traction than it got!)

Here are a few pieces that I may not yet have posted...

Nice full-web RF2!

Ruth-Farley-Speaker ball! Cool!

Ruth in 1926

Looking Lean and Mean in '21 (?)

Reflection...

How great is it to see Mr. Jacksons posting some of his terrific photographs once again! :)

Amazing collectibles all. The greatest figure in baseball history, w some awesome stuff. Keep em all coming!!

Hey all,

Thought I'd chime in, though I suppose it's not really memorabilia. And I guess, only a couple of them are in my possession right now. Yeah. Anywho, here goes:

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June 25, 1920, 28" x 50"

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September 7, 1921, 26" x 34"

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1922, 27" x 36"

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1927, 9" x 12"

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November 4, 1934, 50" x 64"

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April 27, 1947, 44" x 56"

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April 27, 1947, 48" x 52"

And a few in-progresses:

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1918, 30" x 34"

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1934, 11" x 14"

Man, this is making me realize that I need to get some more Ruth paintings done. Yeesh.

Graig

Check it out- my 1st Babe Ruth post!!
First Cooperstown HOF induction class-1939. I don't own it, but it's a classic photo.

Well look at you Scott! :) At least you chose a historic photo for your first post of a Babe Ruth item that you don't have! :rolleyes:

Actually I'm surprised that you don't have any Ruth items in your collection. I thought it was a rule that anybody who collects vintage Baseball memorabilia must have at least one vintage piece of Babe Ruth memorabilia! :D Well, if it's not a rule it sure as hell should be! ;)

This one is for you Scott. It's a perfect companion piece photo to your post!

Vintage Original TYPE 1 Photo of the Historic Hall of Fame Opening Day Parade in Cooperstown, New York, June 1939. That's the Babe and Ty Cobb leading the parade to the front doors of the Cooperstown Museum.

Actually I don't even remember if I posted this image before...

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On a semi related note, I think these vintage photos you guys own/post can almost make us feel like we are there. Sometimes the emotions in people's faces, etc.

Great stuff all.

Jimmy,
That's an awesome photo of the Cooperstown parade. Thanks for posting it!
Currently the only Ruth item that I have is the ticket stub that I posted last month to his last pitching appearance/win in 1933.

In the past I have owned some cool Ruth items. The best one was a vintage fountain pen signed Ruth ball signed on the SS around 1933. The signature was about a 9 and the ball itself was an 8. I bought/traded for it in 1994 and had the seller by it back from me three years later for $1000 more than I paid for it. Believe it or not, I traded three Cal Ripken Topps Traded rookies and $700 for the ball. What a steal! I really wish I still owned it, but at the time $2700 cash seemed like a good deal. Yikes!! :eek:

Probably the deal that I regret most....

A Sympathy Letter to Mrs. Ruth from the Babe's dear friend James A. Farley (Also known in politics as the 'Kingmaker'). Farley was heading up Coca-Cola's Division in Europe at the time Ruth died. His comments were absolutely spot-on and still ring true to this day.

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The Bam is everywhere. A corn field maze seen from the air and yes, even a tortilla chip, a pic of the very young Babe.One of the Babe's dad, as many may already know, killed in a street fight in front of his saloon.

Babe cookie jar. Catching a ball, drop from building, NY City, July, 1922.

Yikes! Catching a ball dropped from the top of a building (or plane) with those crappy mitts that they had, back in the day, must have been HAIRY to say the least!!

One slight miscalculation and the Babe would be going, DOH!!! :eek:

1947 Babe Gets the Brith Shalom Award
 

One of my favorite wire photos- Babe Get the Brith Shalom National Sports Award.

I can tell you this from reading some articles from newspaper archives. The Yankee owners did not like to see the Bam doing anything the put him at risk for injury.
May I stray off the theme of this thead a bit and show what Babe was not to do. Some of these "I Can'ts" were actually written into his contract and he could be fined if found to be in violation. A few more in his contract, no horseback riding, no skiing, no skating and no prolonged handshaking with the public. Believe it or not the owners thought prolonged handshaking put his big paws at risk, finger injury.
He was their big money maker at the ticket gate and they wanted him on the field at all times.

Some info on that ball drop and catch by Babe in August 1922.

Awesome posts there ShoelessJoe3!! Thanks for sharing those with us.

BTW, it doesn't appear that The Babe followed hardly any of these don'ts in his contract Yankls contract. Maybe he was confused and thought the contract read DO!! LOL :p

Probably not Scott, Babe was never one to follow the rules, his contract terms in this case.

Don't recall who it was that summed up the Babe, one of his Red Sox teammates I think......."He does everything wrong off the field and everything right on the field."

New York Times} The most exciting thing in baseball today, Babe Ruth hitting a home run. The second most exciting thing in the game, Babe Ruth striking out.

1925, Artie's Gym on Madison Ave
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1927, Working it with Artie in Hollywoodland
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1928, West Point with Biff Jones (fb coach)
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1929, Holding out. Signing some stuff to keep food on the table. Wants $85K x 3yrs
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1932, Wrigley LA. The groundskeeper could use some Gold Bond
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1933, Dispatch News Serv composite
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He drove just as he lived, fast and hard. Soon he would be going from the bike to big 12 cylinder Packards and Lincolns. He was lucky, involved in 3 roll overs while speeding. I have a number of news articles, his driving violations. One where he was arrested and spent a few hours in Jail.

Upon release his unifrom was brought to the jail and he was given a police escort to get him to the Polo Grounds in time to get into the game.

Witnesses claim the police were far exceeding the NY city speed limit in order to get Babe to the Polo Grounds on time.

Where it all started, St. Marys playing field. Also where Babe hit is one and only home run in the minor leagues, Toronto. On that day he was also pitching, allowed Toronto only one base hit, bloop single.

The sale of the century, any century. Some have actually tried to put a positive spin on Harry Frazee's sale of Babe, there is none not from the baseball angle. Harry pickled up some bucks but this sale and then following sales of other good Bosox players changed the landscape of the game.

Bosox, cream of the AL going down and the so so Yankee team now on the rise. Check out stats for 1919, Babe led both leagues in a great number of offensive stats, now Harry sends him packing, because he was a bad boy.

Also, the Yanks loan Harry 300,000.00+ dollars and Harry puts up Fenway Park as collateral. Possible, shoud Harry default on the loan, the Yanks not only have Babe Ruth but maybe even Fenway park.

Just another indication of his popularity with the public. He is a ball player, not an actor, no stage act and yet he is paid the highest sum ever for any individual stage act including the biggest show business stars in that time.

He has no act, just stand on stage and be Babe Ruth. His first appearance on the West coast he is a hit, comes on stage and they stand and cheer for 5 minutes.

After one show, "he is arrested and booked," released after posting bond for violating the Child Labor Law.

"I swing big with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big.I like to live as big as I can."

First appearance on the West coast.

Hi-
I just acquired this snapshot at the Wilmington MA card show along with some really cool Cobb snapshots. It has 27 written on the back (along with scrapbook residue). I am amazed at what everyone has posted thus far!
Alan Elefson
aelefson@hotmail.com

SUPER Alan. You gonna post the Cobbs?

I think after baseball Babe loved hunting. Golf high on his list also.

Here's the most beautiful signed Babe Ruth 3 x 5 that I've ever seen. This was in the personal collection of Bill Mastro until it went up for auction about a year ago. Say what you will about Mastro, but this guy collected nothing but the best...

It's a blazer!!! :eek:

WOW:eek:

Babe Ruth baseball
 

Here is my signed Ruth ball which I have had for many years. It is personalized to someone whose name was "Buster" Bates. A couple of years ago in a Hunt auction, a signed personalized 8X10 photo "to Buster Bates" was also sold. At the time, I did not have the extra money to bid on it and had to let it go but now if anyone knows where it ended up, I would dearly like to "marry" the two items together. I don't ever recall seeing two personalized items (baseball/photo) made out to the same person although I know it probably happened a lot but maybe Buster Bates was someone special that Babe knew since he took time to sign two different items or maybe there were just two "Buster" Bates. Thanks if you are out there for getting in touch with me.