Moses Fleetwood Walker?

[BigJJ]

Notice also odd shape of dirt running path in foul territory after third base, and flag shadow from top of stadium along first base line. Can we get a year on that photo?

[BigJJ]

The Senator's National Park/Griffth Stadium has such single flags above the stadium in this picture:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gr...Grandstand.jpg
No date attached, and need different dirt running/pitching path (diff season than this pic) but think Senators stadium.
Makes sense it was a Wash DC photographer, if this is in fact the Senators stadium.

[BigJJ]

Babe Ruth and rest of team homeruns by year:
1919: Ruth 29 Team 4
1918: Ruth 11 Team 4
1917: Ruth 2 Team 12
1916: Ruth 3 Team 11
1915: Ruth 4 Team 10
1914: Ruth 0 Team 18

My guess is that is Ruth after hitting a home run at the Senators' ballpark 1918-1919. Need to find out on what exact dates Ruth hit a home run in the Senator's ballpark from 1915-1919. As that looks like a home run to me. Maybe we can get an exact date on the photo, if we are to say that is likely Ruth.

[BigJJ]

Babe hit three home runs in Washington in the 1918 season May 7, June 28, and June 30. In 1919, Babe hit one home run in Washington, on Sept. 27. If it can be shown that the ballpark is the Senators, and that it is 1918 or 1919, and none of the other 4 home runs that were hit in each of the two seasons by other members of the team were in Washington, then I think you have a very very strong argument that it is the Babe - as the only remaining question as to absolute certainty would be whether the picture is definitely of a home run. If we can pin the stadium picture to 1919, perhaps we can say pretty assuredly the picture is from Sept. 27, 1919.
Need to review 1915-1917 as yet, but as I think it is indeed Babe, would like others to assist first in year of ballpark image, as I bet it is 1918-1919.

[BigJJ]

No other members of the team hit a home run in Washington during the entire 1918 season, or the entire 1919 season.

If the stadium pictured is the Senators, and if the picture is from 1918 or 1919, then to me that's clearly Babe Ruth - after hitting a home run.

Perhaps the earliest such image of Ruth crossing home after hitting a homer. !

Now what's my cut?! (I like The Palm Steakhouse)

[BigJJ]

If 1918, would be Ruth's 12th, 19th, or 20th career homerun, if 1919, would be his 49th home run.

[Hankphenom]

I think the pitcher in your photo could be Walter Johnson. Size and gait look right. Ruth hit the first of his ten home runs against Johnson in Washington on May 7, 1918. Two days earlier, Boston manager Ed Barrow, at Harry Hooper's urging, had started Ruth at first base, his first-ever game as a position player and not hitting ninth in the lineup, and this was the second time. This homer against Johnson was Ruth's third in three games, and probably cemented Barrow's strategy to get more offensive output from his star pitcher when he wasn't on the mound. A rather historic photo, if all this is true.