Babe Ruth was born on this day in 1895

WinPitcher · February 6, 2010 1:42AM

Such a larger than life person.

Show your Babe items.

Wish I had some myself.

Steve

sportscardtheory · February 6, 2010 1:48AM

I'm not going to play your game.

frankhardy · February 6, 2010 1:52AM

Number one on my wish list is a Babe Ruth Signed baseball or Babe Ruth Signed vintage card. Heck, I would take a Babe Ruth signed sheet of scrap paper.

Which would you guys rather have - a signed baseball or signed vintage card? (Not that I'll be getting one in this lifetime, but I thought it was an interesting question).

Brick · February 6, 2010 1:52AM

Sad to say I have no Babe Ruth items.
BTW SCT don't worry about how to reach the Mods. I think they may contact you.

WinPitcher · February 6, 2010 1:55AM

Shane I'd prefer the ball myself.

Steve

sportscardtheory · February 6, 2010 1:56AM

<< <i>Sad to say I have no Babe Ruth items.
BTW SCT don't worry about how to reach the Mods. I think they may contact you. >>

I'm going to be completely honest with you. If I'm the one who gets in any trouble for trying to get people to stop harassing me, then this isn't a place I want to frequent anyway and I would be better off. If PSA's policy is to harbor bullys and people who harass others, do you really think I care if I'm not allowed to be here any longer? If they side with the bad guys, then so be it, I'll know what's up with this place.

WinPitcher · February 6, 2010 2:01AM

A quick story. A local guy in his 80's was telling me a story one day. Seems around 1938 or so he was working in a gas station.

Said he was around 14. A nice big car rolls in and a man gets out asks for gas etc. When paying for the service the man asks the kid if he wanted

an autograph. The kid said "why, who are you" (At this point I'm thinking he said YES!) Kid says no thanks sir. Only later did he discover who the man was!

I asked him, how in the world would you not know who Babe Ruth was in 1938? He said he didn't follow baseball and just had no idea then.

I couldn't believe it. True story.

I still don't believe it.

Steve

Blackborder · February 6, 2010 2:09AM

I've always been more interested in Ruth as a Red Sox pitcher than as a Yankee hitter. People usually forget what a great pitcher he was, he won almost 100 games pitching. He would have easily been a HOF pitcher if he had continued.

MULLINS5 · February 6, 2010 2:41AM

<< <i>A quick story. A local guy in his 80's was telling me a story one day. Seems around 1938 or so he was working in a gas station.

Said he was around 14. A nice big car rolls in and a man gets out asks for gas etc. When paying for the service the man asks the kid if he wanted

an autograph. The kid said "why, who are you" (At this point I'm thinking he said YES!) Kid says no thanks sir. Only later did he discover who the man was!

I asked him, how in the world would you not know who Babe Ruth was in 1938? He said he didn't follow baseball and just had no idea then.

I couldn't believe it. True story.

I still don't believe it.

Steve >>

regardless, that's a good story. I don't have any Babe Ruth stories, and I'm too young to really know anything about him other than his place in baseball and American history, also that the sandlot kids used one of his signed baseballs in a game...I think people my age are more fixed on the monetary value of his items, and not so much on the man himself.

My grandfather owned a gas station in Virginia from the 30's through the 70's...and I think I remember hearing my dad say he sold baseball cards...the building is an antique store, which my grandmother owns, haven't been there in years...I'll ask and see if he carried any, would be sort of neat to know

Patrick

calaban7 · February 6, 2010 3:24AM

<< <i>Sad to say I have no Babe Ruth items.
BTW SCT don't worry about how to reach the Mods. I think they may contact you. >>

Now that's funny. Its sad but still funny.

Huggyface · February 6, 2010 3:26AM

Today is Ronald Reagan's birthday as well as my daughter Morgan's 7th birthday. 3 pretty important people in my opinion.

WinPitcher · February 6, 2010 3:46AM

happy Birthday Morgan!

Steve

Stone193 · February 6, 2010 7:13AM

Here's my tribute Steve.

My latest pickup - a Quaker cereal club premium:

mike

Dboneesq · February 6, 2010 7:29AM

HAPPY 115th Birthday BABE!

Edited to add: It's so hard to believe that THE BABE was only 2 years older than I am now when he died.

fmclaug11 · February 6, 2010 10:26AM

Ruth Death Newspaper:

Some cards and stuff:

Blackborder · February 6, 2010 10:28AM

I like your 73 Topps #1

Estil · February 6, 2010 10:39AM

Not exactly an original Babe Ruth item, but I do remember receiving in the mail (and I still have a copy as part of my almost complete 1988-96 Beckett baseball run, but not that same copy) of the Beckett Baseball issue commemorating the Babe's centennial (1995) at the time. Now the Babe would've been 115! Has it been that long ago already?

And it reminds me of this funny Step by Step quote where JT and Cody were doing "JT's World" (a version of Wayne's World) where Cody said this gem (not an exact quote though):

"I just went to see the movie, The Babe; total ripoff!! There wasn't a single babe in that movie worth looking at! Just two hours of that fat dude from Roseanne running the bases!"

And here's the clip (at 4:10): Cody's review of the movie "The Babe"

Stone193 · February 6, 2010 10:47AM

fm

Nice array of Ruth cards and that newspaper page is incredibly framed! It almost looks laminated like a diploma.

Thanx
mike

MDCards · February 6, 2010 11:03AM

I have a 'funny' Ruth story. My grandma is 95, and always lived in the MD/VA area. About 5-10 years ago I asked her about going to baseball games, as I was curious who she might have seen play. She said she went to baseball games only one time in her life - and it was a doubleheader b/w the Senators and the Yanks, and IIRC she said that both games went into extra innings. So although her ONE day of baseball included multiple games with Ruth and Gehrig she said she really disliked it (due mainly to the overall game length) so she never went to another game. Not a bad game to go to though. I believe it was 1934 or '35 - I recall tracking the box scores down before, but Baseball Reference doesn't seem to have 30's box scores anymore. I really get a kick out of the story - she's told it to me a few times now, and I always get a kick out of hearing her 'complaints' about the time she 'had to' watch Gehrig and Ruth play (and all the other HOFers too).

stevek · February 6, 2010 11:04AM

Congrats on the Babe and Grote15 for having the same birth year.

stevek · February 6, 2010 11:05AM

<< <i>Ruth Death Newspaper:

Some cards and stuff:

>>

Nice collection.

frankhardy · February 6, 2010 11:32AM

This is my authentic, 1991 Conlon Babe Ruth. I thought about sending this to PSA/DNA, but why spend $200 when I already know it's real.

Stone193 · February 6, 2010 1:46PM

I'd like to add my 60s Hartland "Babe"

mike

redlegs · February 6, 2010 9:04PM

I just picked up this original 1934 photo with Ruth and Mickey Cochrane.

redlegs · February 6, 2010 11:51PM

I did some further research on this photo. It has a date of July 14, 1934 on the back. On that date Babe Ruth hit home run number 700 off of Tommy Bridges as the Yankees defeated the Detroit tigers.

WinPitcher · February 6, 2010 11:55PM

Very nice items.

Thanks for sharing.

Steve

HoofHearted · February 7, 2010 2:43AM

Fun photos and collectibles of The Babe. Thanks for sharing.

A 1960s Standard Oil game stub -- something I see fmclaug11 has graded:

A 1960s calendar -- well enjoyed:

HeritageSports · February 8, 2010 2:00AM

Kind of a cool photo--Ruth wearing the number "3" for the first time:

http://sports.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=714&Lot_No=81860&src=pr

WinPitcher · February 8, 2010 2:29AM

Actually I do have something, 1986 USPS card and Stamp.

Notice the centering on the stamp? This stamp would never be called 'mint'

This is what Storm has been explaining as of late.

Steve

Babe Ruth was born on this day in 1895

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