April 2007 Catalog > Sports > Ruth and Gehrig
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Lot 516: 1927 Christy Walsh Letter on Bustin' Babe's Larrupin' Lou's Stationery
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A fascinating October 22nd, 1927 correspondence on personalized stationery from the agent of both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig to his mother during the two titans’ barnstorming yet friendly post-season home run battle. The letter is a brief goodbye before he rushed off to meet his clients in Syracuse for a trip that will take him through seven states to help campaign for Democratic Presidential hopeful Al Smith, a native New Yorker. Signed “Christy” at the end, in EX condition. A strange artifact of the colossal Gehrig/Ruth competition.
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