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Originally Posted by bcbgcbrcb
Jeff:
It’s 1915. I bought it back in 2008 in a Leland’s auction, where it appeared along with several other Red Sox player postcards from the same spring training. As I recall, one or two of them were not with the Red Sox in 1916. I brought the postcard to SGC during my lunch hour at work and provided them with my documentation that it should be dated 1915. I left an hour later with the postcard in an SGC 50 (4) holder.
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To the best of my knowledge, there is zero documentation definitively supporting either 1915, 1916 or 1917. I have owned 2 of these Ruth’s. Myself & many advanced hobbyists have relentlessly attempted to dig up a definitive date with no success. This included reaching out to the Arkansas Historical Society as well as attempting to match up Ruth’s facial features and uniform to a specific year. Cannot be later than 1917 because one of the postcards is Hick Cady who left Boston early in the 1917 campaign. The EXACT year remains a black hole which is why SGC labeled them “circa” 1915 that typically spans several years.
Phil - If you can remember the player postcards who were not with Boston in 1916, that would truly be the missing piece to this puzzle.