Bulgaria Babe Ruth is not as Eastern European as I thought

[Butch7999]

A more fluent speaker can provide a better translation than an on-line programme, but it's something like this:

Schmeling and Babe Ruth
The baseball unknown with us is the popular sportsman, the baseball king
beyond the ocean, who enjoys annually 100,000 dollars, as large an income
as the President of the United States. Here Max Schmeling admires Babe Ruth
at a baseball game in Ohio; of course the photographers have given us this
"historical" event.

Bulgaria Sport
3 1/3 Pfg.-Cigarette
Album RM.1. - in the cigarettes-store or by stamps
directly through Bulgaria Cigarettes-factory, Dresden A.21

[Exhibitman]

Here is an American (post)card with Schmeling and Ruth:

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by Butch7999

A more fluent speaker can provide a better translation than an on-line programme, but it's something like this:

Schmeling and Babe Ruth
The baseball unknown with us is the popular sportsman, the baseball king
beyond the ocean, who enjoys annually 100,000 dollars, as large an income
as the President of the United States. Here Max Schmeling admires Babe Ruth
at a baseball game in Ohio; of course the photographers have given us this
"historical" event.

Bulgaria Sport
3 1/3 Pfg.-Cigarette
Album RM.1. - in the cigarettes-store or by stamps
directly through Bulgaria Cigarettes-factory, Dresden A.21

Thanks Butch for the translation. You can still be comfortable in most parts of U.S. enjoying annually 100,000 dollars.

And Adam is correct, Babe Ruth would have been the side attraction for the German market. Note the top billing on the back of the card - Schmeling und Babe Ruth, and the fact that Max is only identified by his last name.

Brian

[packs]

As long as we're talking about baseball in Europe did you guys know that in the Netherlands they call baseball HONKBALL?

[drcy]

During the Soviet Era, Dresden was part of Eastern Europe-- Eastern Germany.

[tedzan]

Illustrated here is the page in the 119-page 1932 Sanella Album with the Babe Ruth card.






Another page in this album features Max Schmeling and Jack Sharkey in New York City in 1932 (Sharkey won).






TED Z
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[Aquarian Sports Cards]

I actually worked with a German collector to put the PSA checklist together for their population report. I have a complete set+ that I am very slowly grading. the little bit I have is on the registry along with the story of me helping put the set composite together.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Other Americans in the set are Walter Hagen, and Charles Lindbergh, Another famous athlete of the period is figure skater Sonia Henie. There are also cards for national teams in various sports as well as cards just about a given sport in general, kind of a fascinating set that I got into by accident.

[Topnotchsy]

Originally Posted by Butch7999

A more fluent speaker can provide a better translation than an on-line programme, but it's something like this:

Schmeling and Babe Ruth
The baseball unknown with us is the popular sportsman, the baseball king
beyond the ocean, who enjoys annually 100,000 dollars, as large an income
as the President of the United States. Here Max Schmeling admires Babe Ruth
at a baseball game in Ohio; of course the photographers have given us this
"historical" event.

Bulgaria Sport
3 1/3 Pfg.-Cigarette
Album RM.1. - in the cigarettes-store or by stamps
directly through Bulgaria Cigarettes-factory, Dresden A.21

Back then it was a surprise that a ballplayer made as much as the US president. How times have changed...