1935 Whitman Babe Ruth

[Brownie33]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

this is not considered a collectible babe ruth card, imo. may have been issued after he retired...does not present his likeness in any way...to me just having the name babe ruth on a card does not make it collectible...imo.

It was issued in 1935, his last year. I was shocked to see that SGC and PSA graded these and the Cobb card from this set. They have been going for a few hundred which I found interesting as well.

[NiceDocter]

The face on the back of the card looks more like a young Ruth than the guy with the bat!!!!

[BobC]

Originally Posted by Brownie33

It was issued in 1935, his last year. I was shocked to see that SGC and PSA graded these and the Cobb card from this set. They have been going for a few hundred which I found interesting as well.

Probably has a lot to do with the influx of flippers/investors in the hobby, coupled with there not being tons of graded examples of these cards out there........yet. They see Babe Ruth on the flip, and go for that instead of the actual card. At least other such obscure game cards, like those Autographs Game cards from 1945, have drawn images/portraits of the likes of Ruth and DiMaggio on them, along with facsimile signatures. But whoever drew the portrait of Ruth on those 1945 Autographs cards did a horrible job. What I'm assuming was an attempt to draw and show a shadow effect under Ruth's nose ends up looking to me like he's sporting a Hitler style mustache. Not a fan!