June 2008 Internet Auction > Sports > Ernie Davis
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Lot 226: Mid-Week Pictorial Collection with Babe Ruth and Bobby Jones Covers (6)
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Grouping of Mid-Week Pictorial publications (6) dating from the 1920's including covers with Ruth (3), Ruth and Gehrig, Bobby Jones and Gene Tunney. One of the covers from May 5, 1928 features Ruth with little Johnny Sylvester, the young boy Ruth famously visited on his death bed to answer his last wish for a Ruthian autographed orb.Another from July 8, 1926 depicts Bobby Jones, "Hailed by Great Britain as the World's Greatest Golfer". Pubs are in an average condition of VG with a 1920 edition with Ruth on the cover in EX. These are filled with great late 1910's and 1920's era baseball photos including Speaker, Sisler, Cobb, Collins, Lewis, Foster, Hooper, Peckinpaugh, Graney, Walker and more.
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