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This is Babe Ruth's Arm?

jrinckjrinck Posts: 1,321 ✭✭
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I'm not questioning the auction, I'm sure it's legit, it's just that I'm surprised The Babe would have such small arms. And I always see pics where he seems somewhat chubby. Must be the uniforms, I guess...

Photo of Babe Ruth's and Jack Dempsey's arms.

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    66Starfire66Starfire Posts: 135
    What!! No pot belly!! image
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    StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
    I thought the catolog stated it was Ruth's and Gehrig's arms??
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    MooseDogMooseDog Posts: 1,946 ✭✭✭
    For what it's worth, the picture states it's from the Christy Walsh collection. Walsh was Lou Gehrig's business manager.
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    WondoWondo Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭
    You asked the question incorrectly. It should be stated:

    This!!! is !!!! Babe!!!! Ruth's!!!! arm?!!!! HOF - Sultan of Swat!!!!!!!!
    Wondo

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    BobaFett72BobaFett72 Posts: 7,304
    amazing what lack of steroids will force a player to do image

    rely on talent and skill image

    it must be a YOUNG ruth... where is the beer gut image
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    RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭
    Which one is "giving buckwheat a headlock"?
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    zef204zef204 Posts: 4,742 ✭✭


    << <i>Which one is "giving buckwheat a headlock"? >>



    If that is Dempsey, I would have to say that Ruth is the Buckwheat headlocker. The paw on the left looks like a fighters paw and the the paw on the right looks like a pitchers paw. I don't think there is much of a chance that Ruth could have been a good pitcher with the short stubby fingers on the left.
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    JasP24JasP24 Posts: 4,645 ✭✭✭
    On the photo of the backside of this pic, it is written "Gehrig and Ruth"...
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    StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭


    << <i>On the photo of the backside of this pic, it is written "Gehrig and Ruth"... >>




    Good eye, I wonder which it is??
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    Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Anybody a nipple expert? Maybe we can discern who is in the left of the photo.
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    jrinckjrinck Posts: 1,321 ✭✭
    The online description says that the mailed catalog had Gehrig's name in error, and that it's really Dempsey.
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    CDsNutsCDsNuts Posts: 10,092 ✭
    Are they lying in bed together?

    Lee
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    kcballboykcballboy Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Anybody a nipple expert? Maybe we can discern who is in the left of the photo. >>



    Yeah, but not those kind of nipples.
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    stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Anybody a nipple expert? Maybe we can discern who is in the left of the photo. >>



    Yeah, but not those kind of nipples. >>



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    blaze42blaze42 Posts: 166
    I don't know if it's the Babe's arm, but it does look like a baby arm





    This phrase, recently popularized by the "Lee Corso has a baby arm" sign seen at the 2006 Texas/Ohio State football game broadcast, originated on the Ticket, 1310 AM in Dallas, TX. A weekend morning show called The Rant, hosted by Gordon Keith proposed a hypothetical after a long discussion about Grady Stiles (the man with "lobster claw" hands that became a sideshow legend). The hypothetical was as such:
    Would you rather have a baby arm (an arm that is far underdeveloped on a full size person, which is a common defect), or a lobster claw?
    The lobster claw would be on a normal sized arm, so it's a normal arm with the claw or a mutant mini baby sized arm on a regular sized person.
    Baby arm has become a generic phrase used by the staff of the Ticket as well as the listeners. It is mostly a greeting, and has been championed most in recent times by BAD Radio (a show on the Ticket), although all hosts might spit it out here or there. Dan McDowell, co-host of the BAD Radio show actually wrote a song about baby arm and performed it at the Ticket's yearly convention called Ticketstock. It was set to the tune of Candyman.


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    gonzergonzer Posts: 2,990 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's all in the wrists m'boy, the wrists.
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