Babe Ruth $$$

[Tabe]

Originally Posted by sbfinley

No doubt Ruth was an amazing signer in his day, but 1,000,000 is an implausibly high number and more hyperbole of Ruth’s generous nature. If it takes 5 seconds to grab a ball, sign your name, and sit it down. You would have to sign 24/7 365 days a year without rest for 10 years to hit that number. I think a lower number like 3,000-5,000 signed balls is more into reality and like Scott stated: many of those balls didn’t survive to today. Supply and demand.

He signed WAY more balls than that. There's photos of him signing hundreds of balls at one time. 1,000,000 is probably too high but 5,000 is not even close.

[philo98]

Originally Posted by Tabe

He signed WAY more balls than that. There's photos of him signing hundreds of balls at one time. 1,000,000 is probably too high but 5,000 is not even close.

Yes even in the book “Big Fella” by Jane Leavy, she references at certain points where Ruth signed hundreds of balls, even dropping hundreds of them off the train through the towns he passed through. It certainly wouldn’t be 1 million but without a doubt waaaayyyyy more than 5000.