Show Any & All Things of the Bambino!

[Lordstan]

Well Jimmy,
I feel like I'm about to get your best Pacino.
"Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in."
Mark

[baseballart]

~1931 Japanese language edition of Babe Ruth, How to Play Baseball, with dust jacket

[David Atkatz]

One more. Signed "Babe Ruth's Own Book..."

[GKreindler]

Bad @$$, David! Bad @$$ David!

[thekingofclout]

Originally Posted by Lordstan

Well Jimmy,
I feel like I'm about to get your best Pacino.
"Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in."
Mark

LMAO! That's classic Mark.

Here's the killer Babe that I got in a monster trade with the above mentioned Mark just a few months ago. Easily the fairest trade I've ever been involved in. Thanks again Mark...

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[whitehse]

Originally Posted by thekingofclout

LMAO! That's classic Mark.

Here's the killer Babe that I got in a monster trade with the above mentioned Mark just a few months ago. Easily the fairest trade I've ever been involved in. Thanks again Mark...

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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.

[Scott Garner]

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.

I'll betcha Jimmy would like to find that Ruth bat with the piece of the knob missing as his ultimate Big Bam companion piece!!

[thekingofclout]

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.

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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[perezfan]

Didn't want to let this thread die, as I believe people are holding back. I know there's a lot more great Bambino stuff out there. Let's see if we can give this one some "legs" (as it deserved more traction than it got!)

Here are a few pieces that I may not yet have posted...

[Mr. Mitt]

Nice full-web RF2!

[David Atkatz]

Ruth-Farley-Speaker ball! Cool!