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Babe Ruth Signed 1940s Small Promotional Photo

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:5.00 USD Estimated At:7,500.00 - 10,000.00 USD
Babe Ruth Signed 1940s Small Promotional Photo
Signed on a 3.25 x 5 Black and White Photograph. Babe Ruth was born George Herman Ruth Jr. on February 6, 1895, in Baltimore, Maryland. At the age of 7, the trouble-making Ruth became too much of a handful for his busy parents. Routinely caught wandering the dockyards, drinking, chewing tobacco and taunting local police officers, his parents finally decided he needed more discipline than they could give him. Ruth's family sent him to St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, a Catholic orphanage and reformatory that became Ruth's home for the next 12 years. Ruth particularly looked up to a monk named Brother Matthias, who became a father figure to the young boy. Mathias, along with several other monks of the order, introduced Ruth to baseball, a game at which the boy excelled. Babe Ruth went on to break baseball's most important slugging records, including most years leading a league in home runs, most total bases in a season, and highest slugging percentage for a season. In all, Ruth hit 714 home runs—a mark that stood until 1974. Comes custom matted and framed. This item has been authenticated by GFA and comes with a Letter of Authenticity along with the GFA guarantee of authenticity.