Who wants Babe Ruth's phone number?

[jerseygary]

In one mighty post, Paul completely eclipsed anything that was in that much-advertised new Babe Ruth book. Great information Paul, thanks for posting that.

I have always been interested in The Babe's Baltimore period since I read Creamer's book in grammar school. Later, in the 1980's, I went to art school in Baltimore and the first thing I did when arriving there was to seek out the address of all the Babe Ruth sites in town, including the old Ruth's Cafe on Eutaw Street - I seem to recall it was a "showbar" back then as well.

I later spent 9 months in 2002 taking a large exhibit from the Babe Ruth Museum around the country and setting up in spring training stadiums and later all throughout the minor leagues.

The Babe was the best there ever was!

[prestigecollectibles]

Here is a copy of Babe Ruth's passport application from 1920

[Snapolit1]

Phone book very very cool. Love it. I never think of these "outside the box" approaches to finding cool stuff. This is awesome.

[chalupacollects]

You should be able to find an old New Rochelle, NY phone book from the 30's. Lou Gehrig owned a house at 9 Meadow Lane, (I grew up two blocks from the house) Bill Terry also lived at 127 Woodland Avenue (2 houses away from me - beautiful house!) for a while and Babe Ruth did keep an apartment at 5 or 9 Circuit Road for a time... about a half mile away...as well as on Grand Concourse in the Bronx..Gehrig also lived at 5 Circuit Road for a while as well..

Unfortunately, I was not around during this time though grandparents and grandparents of friends in the neighborhood certainly remembered them...

Never thought of going through old phone books!

[Shoeless Moe]

If anyone is interested in owning this, it's in Goldin's auction ending tonight:


https://goldinauctions.com/1916_Tele...-LOT48771.aspx