April Pickups

[Piratedogcardshows]

T209's

[pencil1974]

Not my normal pick up (first photo I have bought) but something just sort of drew me to it and the price was right as well.

[Bugsy]

Originally Posted by pencil1974

Not my normal pick up (first photo I have bought) but something just sort of drew me to it and the price was right as well.

Signing with his right hand?

[pencil1974]

I guess so maybe he didn't like the guy that much and just did a crappy signature, lol. What I am assuming it was already probably signed and he posed like he was signing it?

OK just looked up some photos of him signing autographs and it seems he signed with his right hand.

[bn2cardz]

Originally Posted by Bugsy

Signing with his right hand?

He wrote right handed. Do a google image search for "babe ruth signing" he always did it with his right hand.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by bn2cardz

He wrote right handed. Do a google image search for "babe ruth signing" he always did it with his right hand.

I have played baseball and softball for 46 yrs running. I throw and bat left handed. I write right handed. It's not that uncommon. Nice photo btw....

[bn2cardz]

Originally Posted by Leon

I have played baseball and softball for 46 yrs running. I throw and bat left handed. I write right handed. It's not that uncommon. Nice photo btw....

Especially for back when Ruth lived. As writing left-handed was considered wrong. Mainly because the ink would smear by left-handed writers.

[BruceinGa]

Originally Posted by Leon

I have played baseball and softball for 46 yrs running. I throw and bat left handed. I write right handed. It's not that uncommon. Nice photo btw....

Same here, played baseball and softball for 54 yrs, bat and throw left handed but I write right handed. I also play golf and basketball right handed.

[darwinbulldog]

It's the other way for me. I'm left-handed, but I play baseball righty (at the plate and in the field) because I learned how to play by copying my dad.

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

Originally Posted by Leon

I have played baseball and softball for 46 yrs running. I throw and bat left handed. I write right handed. It's not that uncommon. Nice photo btw....

I am a natural lefty but learned to do everything right handed growing up. My parents told me that I was using the wrong hand.

[pencil1974]

Yeah I had forgot that they used to tell people to switch. Thanks Leon I thought it was a good deal for $20.

[wolf441]

Originally Posted by Leon

I have played baseball and softball for 46 yrs running. I throw and bat left handed. I write right handed. It's not that uncommon. Nice photo btw....

+1. I think the only reason that I write right handing is spending my first six years in Catholic school. The nuns would rap you in the hand if you tried to write left handed!

Also, I picked this card up for the second time in the Sterling auction last night. I love the look and am glad to have it back. I had won it in last September's B&L auction and wound up trading it for four T206's. Sorry for the small scan!

[Luke]

Nice e102 Steve!

I managed to hold on and win an upgrade on one of my favorite e95s in Sterling:

[Piratedogcardshows]

Im very excited to have worked a deal to acquire this Goosetree. Thanks John.

If anyone has the other Goosetree pose to part with please let me know.Thank you.

[auggiedoggy]

Originally Posted by Bugsy

Signing with his right hand?

I'm a right-hander for everything except handwriting. Not that big a deal.

[Paul S]

Hardly unusual for a person in Ruth's day and age, and likely at St. Mary's, to get his left hand smacked with a ruler by a nun if he was writing that way. In fact, even when I was growing up my friends in Catholic school would tell me their similar experience.
When batting I started off emulating my right handed friends. It took me awhile to get the hang of it. And then I tried batting lefty -- that was like stepping inside a Claritin commercial! -- everything is crystal clear. So I ended up a switch hitter. Today, I do different tasks with different hands, but do not consider myself ambidextrous in the exact definition of the word.

[glenv]

I'd give my left hand to be ambidextrous!

[Brian Van Horn]

I don't know who it is and I don't care. For $1.99 (plus $2.00 s/h), I'll take it, pinholes and all: