Is This Really Babe Ruth?

[swarmee]

I sent a message to the setregistry email to have it removed from the Master and Super Set registries at PSA.

[D. Bergin]

So the question becomes; How many people paid Babe Ruth money for that card, and how many people paid Ernst Brandsten money for that card?

[irv]

Originally Posted by mantlefan

I was going through some of my oddball Babe cards and came across this one. It's a 1935 Muratti cigarette card of Babe and Olympic diver, Dorothy Boynton. The card back mentions that in 1928 Dorothy, a diver, was 14 and the youngest athlete ever to win an Olympic medal. It states that she won the 1932 Gold for diving in LA. The photo is presumably from the 1932 Olympics. Not a word about the Babe though. He seems kind of slim to be Babe and I think the nose is wrong. Also, the Olympics in LA ran July 30, 1932 to August 14, 1932. Wouldn't Babe be playing ball then?





Any ideas?

I was able to find a bigger pic of it. Pretty easy to see the bleachers and all the rest of it to prove it was, without a doubt, taken at or around the same time as the supposed baseball card was. Even the same jacket is hanging over the handrail.

[EvilKing00]

So now this is 2 babe ruths uncovered

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[irv]

Originally Posted by EvilKing00

So now this is 2 babe ruths uncovered

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Just have to get the original one posted corrected now as I believe the one you just posted, Steve, already has been?

[EvilKing00]

Originally Posted by irv

Just have to get the original one posted corrected now as I believe the one you just posted, Steve, already has been?

just ended it

[swarmee]

1962 Dickson Orde Sports of the Countries - [Base] #11 - America (Babe Ruth) [PSA*8]
Courtesy of COMC.com

Who is this guy? Not Babe Ruth (or really anyone) IMO. It's just a mention on the back. Kind of like:

[irv]

Originally Posted by swarmee

I sent a message to the setregistry email to have it removed from the Master and Super Set registries at PSA.

Any word on any of this, John? I am curious what will happen going forward with this card and curious if current owners, thinking they have Ruth, know about this?

[swarmee]

Nope, no response from the Set Registry team yet.

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by swarmee

Nope, no response from the Set Registry team yet.

Ditto, now 5 months later.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by swarmee

Ditto, now 5 months later.

We need Spaeth to email Joe O again. I think that is how the Marquard finally got fixed from Ruth on the Sermon postcard.

[EvilKing00]

all 3 of the big grading compaines need to see the evidence and make the correction.

[Bored5000]

This really seems to like a huge screw up by the TPG companies. The value of that card is just about zero without Babe Ruth. Wonder how the hobby ever came to accept that it was Ruth in the image?

Aside from the fact that lots of people now have a card that is nearly worthless (if they are being honest when they try to sell it), this eliminates one of the few Ruth pre World War II cards that could still be had for under $500.

[Yoda]

How about Dorothy and "Fattie" Arbuckle? He was known for appreciating young girls.

[OLDBILL]

My best translation for the back of the B. Ruth card is:

FOCAL POINTS
THE GERMAN SPORTS
A compilation in 3 volumes
Volume I:
"Between the Olympics
Picture 26
Volume I:
Dorothy Poynton was 14 years old when she first came to the USA. At the Olympics in 1928. In Los Angeles in 1932, she won in the dive.
By classifying the images in the scrapbook edited by us, the collector receives a sports history of our time, linked in text and image. The Album,, Between the Olympic Games is available at the price of 1 Reichsmark in all Cigaretten - sales outlets or directly through us.
The pictures are enclosed with the packs of 10, 25 and 50 pieces of our brand "Muratti Privat".
The exchange of images can only take place, after the whole series has been released.
In Preparation:
Volume II: "A sports nation is preparing"
Volume III: "The XI. 1936 Olympics, Berlin
Cigarette factories
Muratti Stock Company
Berlin

[OLDBILL]

bump

[mantlefan]

Herr Bill, das ist richtig.

[OLDBILL]

Danke Google Translate...Ha!

[irv]

Looks like these are still in circulation. With Ruth cards being hot lately, I'm sure there are some others getting some pretty decent prices. For those that don't know about this card, you might appreciate this thread?
I wrote the seller to let him know.
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/194740985369...75.c101224.m-1

[GasHouseGang]

I think it's cute how you think he'll actually care.

[irv]

Originally Posted by irv

Looks like these are still in circulation. With Ruth cards being hot lately, I'm sure there are some others getting some pretty decent prices. For those that don't know about this card, you might appreciate this thread?
I wrote the seller to let him know.
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/194740985369...75.c101224.m-1

$856 U.S or a $1,073 CDN dollars realized. I hope the buyer sees/is told about their purchase before they get to excited thinking they are going to have a huge windfall in 5 to 10 years.