E121 "Babe" vs Babe

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Posted By: cmoking

There are three E121 Babe Ruth cards, I'm not 100% sure, but I think there are two variations for each of the three images. I know the throwing pose there are definitly two variations - the variations being Babe in quotes in one and not in the other.

Does anyone know the relative scarcity between the two? From the few cards I've seen, they seem to be exist in about the same quantity...but I've only seen 10 or so (in auctions and in person), so it may just be chance.

There are two cards tonight in Heritage's auction, one a SGC 40 with 'Babe' and the other with SGC 84 with Babe. If anyone thinks I'm outing those auctions, sorry, but it doesn't matter to me, and anyone remotely interested in Ruth cards would have seen them anyway.

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Posted By: barrysloate

The coolest E121 Ruth is the one of him holding the bird.

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Posted By: Matt

I'm partial to the one where he's pitching wearing a Red Sox uniform.

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Posted By: leon

I don't follow them too closely but it seems like I have seen fewer with the quotation marks.....regards

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Posted By: Kevin Saucier

delete - wrong subject matter

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Posted By: Jeremy W.

Well, according to Lipset's book, the card without quotation marks is the scarcer of the two. That is old information that may or may not be as accurate today as it was then. If I'm not mistaken, there is also a George Ruth version. Hope that helps.

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Posted By: bill

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Posted By: cmoking

If I'm not mistaken, the George Ruth version has him in L.F.