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[BABE RUTH’S TEAMMATES]

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[BABE RUTH’S TEAMMATES]
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>[BABE RUTH’S TEAMMATES] </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>Group of 16 Yankee players who played with the legendary “Sultan of Swat.” All have boldly penned their signatures on a “Babe Ruth Birthplace Foundation” envelope with lithograph vignette of Ruth at left margin, ca. late 1970s. Included are </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>Whitey Witt; Bill Dickey; Sam Byrd; Waite Hoyt; Bob Shawkey; Joe Dugan; Bob Meusel; George Selkirk; George Pipgras; Mark Koenig; Frank Crosetti; Joe Sewell; Jimmie Reese; Burleigh Grimes; Roger Peckinpaugh</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>; and </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>Joe McCarthy</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>. Mrs. Tony Lazzeri also signs in memory of her husband. Light toning; o/w Fine. Accompanied by ALS by shortstop </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>Mark Koenig</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>, 1p, small 8vo, Glen Ellen, CA, May 11, 1977. To Jack Marcus, in part, “...<i>I just scribbled off a few lines to Jim Ogle thanking him for the attractive pins and the copy of Pinstripes...I am still able to ambulate and am not a bent over old man as that Kalp Leaf reported.</i>..” With transmittal envelope addressed in his holograph. Light toning; o/w Fine.</span></p>