Babe Ruth $$$

[sbfinley]

No doubt Ruth was an amazing signer in his day, but 1,000,000 is an implausibly high number and more hyperbole of Ruth’s generous nature. If it takes 5 seconds to grab a ball, sign your name, and sit it down. You would have to sign 24/7 365 days a year without rest for 10 years to hit that number. I think a lower number like 3,000-5,000 signed balls is more into reality and like Scott stated: many of those balls didn’t survive to today. Supply and demand.

[nineunder71]

I like your theory, but your math is WAY off

86,400 seconds in a day divided by 5 (your estimation) = 17,280 signatures a day x 365 would be over 6 million signatures a year.

PRICE CHECK on isle 5 please, I’ll buy any Ruth signature you wish to return sir.

Originally Posted by sbfinley

No doubt Ruth was an amazing signer in his day, but 1,000,000 is an implausibly high number and more hyperbole of Ruth’s generous nature. If it takes 5 seconds to grab a ball, sign your name, and sit it down. You would have to sign 24/7 365 days a year without rest for 10 years to hit that number. I think a lower number like 3,000-5,000 signed balls is more into reality and like Scott stated: many of those balls didn’t survive to today. Supply and demand.

[sbfinley]

Don’t think your special because you know numbers.

Originally Posted by nineunder71

I like your theory, but your math is WAY off

86,400 seconds in a day divided by 5 (your estimation) = 17,280 signatures a day x 365 would be over 6 million signatures a year.

PRICE CHECK on isle 5 please, I’ll buy any Ruth signature you wish to return sir.

[Snowman]

1,000,000 baseballs? lol. I'd take the under on 100,000. Let alone 1 million.

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by Snowman

1,000,000 baseballs? lol. I'd take the under on 100,000. Let alone 1 million.

Laugh out loud, Mr. Snide know it all. Ruth was the most prodigious signer known. I'll take Waite Hoyt, who knew him, over you, who didn't.

[sflayank]

To sign a million baseballs you would have to sign 100 every day for 30 years....no he didn't sign a million
100,000...10 per day for 30 years...I guess thats possible

[mrreality68]

Regardless of the #.
We all know he signed alot and created alot of inventory of signed balls.
But Due to his name, his history, and his legend his demand is so great that it makes that inventory often low inventory and as a result the Demand keeps going up.
Thus the Prices Keep Going up

He is Bigger then Life on his own

and every time he is mentioned in modern day like when Shohei Ohtani gets compared to Ruth it just means more people, young people, international people all learn, re-learn, or get the Legend of Ruth more enhanced and this creates even more demand for Ruth items.

And as some discussed as some of the inventory of cards, balls, or other items dry up then other cards that normally never went for much increase because regardless of its for investment or for collecting people will buy what they can get and what they can afford.

[nineunder71]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...IRWgFcpTFV_A4G


I’ve never done this before, so I hope it works

I’m hoping the above link works, if so it should take you to an article from the Albuquerque Journal written in 2015. My really good friend, kinda my baseball card mentor, ‘Bubba’ owned an awesome shop here in Abq for over 30 years. I frequented his shop from the time I was a small child, until he closed it down shortly after this incident(well into my thirties).

His prize possession was that Babe Ruth ball. I got to know Jim pretty darn well as I got older I would frequent his shop almost weekly, and he would show me all sorts of super neat stuff. Jim was into perfect centering and Gem Mint cards long before any TPG ever slabbed a card. His collection today would bring $$ through the ROOF. I’m not positive, but I truly believe when the ball was stolen from him, he lost interest, and literally closed up shop.

I don’t know whatever came of this story, sadly I have not seen Bubba since, but with so many other balls out there, I sure hope he gets to own, hold & enjoy another one..

Since this board is so extensive and chalked full of super collectors, wouldn’t it be cool if we could somehow find his exact ball, the one with the ‘R’ written twice. I would think if the owner today knew the story behind it, something surly could get worked out to return the ball to Bubba.

Probably a super long shot, but I figured I would throw this out there.

See what I did there, thanks all

Colton

[BabyRuth]

Every thread needs a card or two

[Snowman]

Originally Posted by jingram058

Laugh out loud, Mr. Snide know it all. Ruth was the most prodigious signer known. I'll take Waite Hoyt, who knew him, over you, who didn't.

OK, well if you're going to resort to name calling, then I'll return the favor. You're an absolute imbecile if you think anyone has ever signed 1 million baseballs, let alone Babe Ruth.

[jingram058]

No one really cares. I still take Waite Hoyt and his publisher over you. You don't know everything. But you certainly think you do. If I am an imbecile, so be it. Don't care.

[Tabe]

Originally Posted by sbfinley

No doubt Ruth was an amazing signer in his day, but 1,000,000 is an implausibly high number and more hyperbole of Ruth’s generous nature. If it takes 5 seconds to grab a ball, sign your name, and sit it down. You would have to sign 24/7 365 days a year without rest for 10 years to hit that number. I think a lower number like 3,000-5,000 signed balls is more into reality and like Scott stated: many of those balls didn’t survive to today. Supply and demand.

He signed WAY more balls than that. There's photos of him signing hundreds of balls at one time. 1,000,000 is probably too high but 5,000 is not even close.

[philo98]

Originally Posted by Tabe

He signed WAY more balls than that. There's photos of him signing hundreds of balls at one time. 1,000,000 is probably too high but 5,000 is not even close.

Yes even in the book “Big Fella” by Jane Leavy, she references at certain points where Ruth signed hundreds of balls, even dropping hundreds of them off the train through the towns he passed through. It certainly wouldn’t be 1 million but without a doubt waaaayyyyy more than 5000.