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Lot 1563: Babe Ruth Signed Photo (5x7")

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Reserve: $500.00
Winning Bid: $2,484.98
Price Realized: $2,969.55
Auction Date:6/26/2005 9:00 PM EST

Photo of the Babe looking more like Cornelius Vanderbilt than The Sultan of Swat, clad in pinstriped white trousers, double-breasted jacket, light colored tie, and spats. (He probably left the walking stick in the bat rack.) We don't exactly know where the picture was taken, but a polo club must have been close by. Though Babe could buy duds like these with no sweat (at least none that can be seen), even he looks somewhat sheepish, somewhere between pride and pain, though he must have liked it enough to have signed his autograph across the area of the pants, in a fine-tipped black fountain pen. Signature grades an 8/10. Lightly toned 5 x 7" photo is NRMT under glass in an impressive silver grated frame. One of the best out-of-uniform Ruth shot of all. LOA.

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