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Old 03-22-2017, 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Butch7999 View Post
A more fluent speaker can provide a better translation than an on-line programme, but it's something like this:

Schmeling and Babe Ruth
The baseball unknown with us is the popular sportsman, the baseball king
beyond the ocean, who enjoys annually 100,000 dollars, as large an income
as the President of the United States. Here Max Schmeling admires Babe Ruth
at a baseball game in Ohio; of course the photographers have given us this
"historical" event.

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Thanks Butch for the translation. You can still be comfortable in most parts of U.S. enjoying annually 100,000 dollars.

And Adam is correct, Babe Ruth would have been the side attraction for the German market. Note the top billing on the back of the card - Schmeling und Babe Ruth, and the fact that Max is only identified by his last name.

Brian
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