I see where your Babe Ruth is indeed darker looking. I no longer collect these, but the eastern exhibits I owned looked like the one on the left below--one of these just ended on ebay and the other is there now:
So those that look like the one on the right are not B&W but are instead considered a different shade of sepia?
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