Babe Ruth Portrait photograph

Dateundated

DescriptionA black-and-white photograph of Babe Ruth. He is wearing a coat and hat and smoking a cigar. A portion of the caption is missing. The caption (not shown) reads "Wearing a quizzical look, [...] one of baseball's greatest performers who[...] announced that last year was his last as [...] player with the New York Yankees, as he[...] Victoria at the head of a group of ba[...] will play in the Orient. Rumor has [...] will succeed the veteran Connie Mack[...] of age, as the manager of the Philadelphia Athletics]."

Object numberBL-1968-01451-0762

Publisher New York World-Telegram

Subject Ruth, Babe, 1895-1948

Attributes

Classificationsphotographic materials

Collection NumberBA PHT 001 New York World-Telegram photographic materials

Dimensions5.75 x 8.5 in.

Copyrighthttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

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