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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: barrysloate
I first apologize for not putting this on the memorabilia side, but photos often end up here. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: Joe D.
It doesn't look anything like babe ruth to me. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: barrysloate
Not even a resemblance? I should also add he has a catcher's mitt on his left hand, which would make him a right handed thrower. So unless the image is reversed, not a good sign. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: Phil Garry
Not the Babe. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: MVSNYC
not even a glimpse of Ruth. nose is way too small...if i had to compare him to a ball player with a gun to my head, i would say maybe similar to Hal Chase, but still a ways off...barry, please clean those glasses of yours and just stick to bullying other board members around, will ya?! |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: Frank Wakefield
No, it isn't, I don't think... |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: barrysloate
I am overdue for a new pair of glasses. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
Let me be the 1st here to say it is the Babe. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: leon
It's not Ruth but is that white NOISE I see? |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: Bobby Binder
Looks like a retro pix of Payne Stewart |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: barrysloate
Well, two for Ruth (me and Ted) and about four against. The problem is you can't end up 12-8 or 13-10. It is either 100% Ruth, or 100% not him. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: Al Simeone
Barry, |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: Kenneth A. Cohen
Can someone do a scientific analysis of the ears? |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: bmarlowe
Scientific ear analysis? -- |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: Bob C.
Hey Barry. Pretty sure that's Prince Harry. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: Scott Dango
the babe has THE MOST RECOGNIZABLE face on the planet, and i think that is a confirmed fact.....i think that if this thread was on a chinese message board, they would laugh at the OP---not even close.... |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: Dan Bretta
I vote no. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: dennis
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: barrysloate
Looks like the majority goes with "no." Thanks to all for taking the time to respond. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: Scott Dango
it cant hurt to dream! |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: barrysloate
It's not mine...it's someone else's dream. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: David Atkatz
Ruth wrote with his right hand. (As did Gehrig, and all left-handers in those days. Left-handed children were forced to write right-handed. My father did everything lefty... except write.) |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: JohnnyH
If it is it would have to be when he was around 12-13 years old, and I'm not sure why he would be posing like that or wearing those clothes. There doesn't seem to be a lot of photos of him when he was young so you never know. It could always be sold the714gallery, listed as his pre rookie and listed for 150,000.00 |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: Geno
Maybe the Babe took the photo... |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: CoreyRSh.anus
There's a RESEMBLANCE. But without more, it should die there. Resemblances alone almost always lead to nowhere. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: Marty Ogelvie
At first glance, I thought it was Prince Hal (Chase) but the guy is simply wearing too much blush to be Hal.. I don't see the Ruth resemblence at all, but what the heck do I know.. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: Steve
What Corey said. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: ramram
Sorry, but not even close to me. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: Dan Bretta
Rob, he played catcher as a lefty, but wore a righthanded catcher's mitt. He probably just put the mitt on the correct hand for the photo. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: bmarlowe
This all reminds me of the old Aristotle - horse's teeth story. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
Forget Aristotle....listen to this Greek...... |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: bmarlowe
You're not a lone ranger here Ted - I don't know if it's Ruth or not - the ear as far as I can see looks pretty good, though I have doubts about the chin. I do think it's at least worth a closer look. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: Anonymous
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
OK guy....choose your character....we are the Lone Ranger and Tonto against all the others on this thread |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: barrysloate
To answer a few questions: |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: Rob L
Unless Babe had a nose job, it doesn't appear to be him. His nose is very distinctive and the one in the photo is not close. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: JimB
I don't see any resemblance at all. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: barrysloate
Again, I'm very surprised, because I've spoken to others who see a strong resemblance who haven't posted on this thread. I actually find it fascinating how people see the same thing differently. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: bmarlowe (Mark)
I coudln't disagree with Rob L more - first of all the nose in the photo is almost entirely washed out (perhaps by the flash)- all you can see are nostrils! The size and angle of these do match Ruth. Beyond that, I don't know how anyone can make a strong statement. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
The ear characteristics are the best match we have here. I would say this semi-profile angle is throwing off |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: MVSNYC
IMO, and with all due respect to whomever thinks this dude looks like a young Ruth, it looks absolutely nothing like him. many people share similar ears...this guy looks like he is of Irish decent. light colored hair, fair complextion, rosie cheeks, thin nose...Ruth is the total opposite. Dark hair, darker complextion, very wide nose. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: barrysloate
Michael- I would discount the rosy cheeks because I believe the coloring on the photo was done by hand. The shape of the nose or ears would be a more accurate gauge. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: David Atkatz
Unless it's an Autochrome (which is a transparency, and the photo in question is not) it was definitely hand-colored. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
I have the original B/W photos my Mother and Father, my Aunt and Uncle, and older Cousins and the enlarged |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: David Atkatz
The process was popular from the 1850s onwards. Many daguerreotypes were hand-colored. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: Dan McCarthy
At first glance I thought "no way," but the more I look at it the more I think that it actually might be. I'll post some things once I get out of class that might make the Ruth argument stronger. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: Richard L.
I have gone back and forth and am stuck in the middle. If you compare to the photo Dan Bretta posted as a young catcher at St. Mary's (which was also used by Topps in 1962) my eyes tell me the nose is close, flat and wide. The rugged chin looks to be a near perfect match. The lips however don't seem to match, Ruth had huge lips in that catcher's mitt/mask photo but doesn't look that way in the original post. Barry I think you are a little off on the age, by 20 he was already pitching for the Sox, but then again he is wearing "red sox" in the picture . The owner should open the frame just to see if an ID notation is mentioned. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: Shawn
Not near as young, but another angle... |
#49
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: Rob D.
Keep looking at something long enough and you'll begin to convince yourself that almost anything might be. |
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Could This Photograph be Babe Ruth?
Posted By: bmarlowe (Mark)
It took a while to find the photo I needed, but this shows Barry's photo can't possibly be Ruth. Note that in Barry's photo, the top of the guy's ear more or less lines up with his eyebrows, but for Ruth, the top of his ear is well above his brow line. |
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