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Originally Posted by whitehse
Question about this picture or more directly, the bat Babe is carrying. Does that knob have a notch out of it or is that something on the photo itself? I know it sounds odd to even ask but given todays players, an imperfection on the knob with a chunck missing would cause the bat to be discarded. I was kinda curious to see this especially in a Ruth bat.
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After looking through a pair of 10x goggles, it doesn't look like a chunk out of the knob at all. It appears to be a white dot that was on the negative not the bat. The scratch that you see to the right of Babe is also from the negative and not on the photo itself. The way that Babe griped his bats, all the way down to the knob, I couldn't see him feeling comfortable it there was a notch in the knob.
Here are a few pieces from his 1927 movie - "Babe Comes Home"
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