Babe's hobby.......

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Posted By: leon

Before zig-zags I guess....

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Posted By: peter ullman

that's a great photo...is he in cuba? he looks pretty young as well.

pete in mn

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Posted By: leon

I just found the photo while surfining the bay.....slow day at the office so thought I would post it.

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Posted By: barrysloate

Those aren't doobies, are they?

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Posted By: leon

I don't think so....I think The Babe's vices were alcohol, food, and women....not necessarily in that order....

edited grammar

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Posted By: peter chao

Leon,

Great photo...looks like beer kegs in the background.

Peter

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Posted By: Darren

Those are doobies laced with human growth hormone and the juice ram of testicles.

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Posted By: barrysloate

I think food may have trumped the other two!

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Posted By: leon

If you have ever seen a picture of Jefferson Burdick.....put glasses on Ruth and this pic almost reminds me of him....even hunched over with arthritis....though Jeff would have been cataloging his cards and not rolling big fat ones....

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Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)

Did you ever consider that maybe the Babe was rolling doob's and the reason he liked food so much was because he liked smoking his doob's (which, of course, leads to the dreaded munchies - at least that's what I've been told)?

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Posted By: Anthony

Tampa (Ybor City, specifically) had a huge cigar industry about the time this would've been taken, and the Yankees had spring training in nearby St. Pete, if I recall correctly.
More likely it was shot there.
DredFred- Not always. I read in books that it effects differently people differently

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Posted By: leon

It made the hair on my head have a pilgrimage to my back

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Posted By: barrysloate

I've heard that even a single puff turns some people into crazed killers!

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Posted By: Paul

That was funny, but say it aint so. Maybe it was just the Babe's special diet that fueled his greatness. Well it couldn't be. I'm on nearly the same diet, & I can barely hit a softball.

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Posted By: Mike

Underwood and Underwood had a half dozen or so (name) variations on their photos. The white inset shown on this photo was used greatly around the mid to late teens. They then went to paper labels or differing stampings. I have many Ruth news photos and wire photos. My wife even lets me hang several in our family room. Very cool picture leon....So I would date the photo about 1917 or 1918. Give or take a year.

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Posted By: peter chao

Guys,

So the Babe looks like he's in a Cigar Factory, so I doubt that those are beer kegs in the background...darn, it would have been a nice party.

Peter

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Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)

From the look of the picture the Babe looks to be pretty young. Unfortunately for the Babe, they didn't make the movie "Reefer Madness" until much later