There might be an extra premium due to it being a Red Sox card, given that there are so few Red Sox cards of Ruth out there. If he had stayed with them for longer (say through the early 1920s), maybe it would be a lower multiplier? Also - Cobb has a lot more early year postcards than Ruth.
Still, it just seems like way too big of a discrepancy. I get Ruth being more collectible, but not at a 10x rate.
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