Babe Ruth and Alan Fairfax Playing Cricket photograph

Date1935 February 09

DescriptionA black-and-white photograph of Babe Ruth learning how to play cricket. The caption (not shown) reads "Supreme ruler of slugging in baseball, George Herman (Babe) Ruth tried cricket recently at London, England, and found that his batting eye served him to good purpose. He is shown above Feb. 9 at Thames house receiving pointers on correct cricket stance from Alan Fairfax, former Australian test cricketer. Babe reverted to baseball position after a few tries and made out pretty well."

Object numberBL-1968-01451-0497

Publisher New York World-Telegram

Subject Ruth, Babe, 1895-1948

Attributes

Classificationsphotographic materials

Collection NumberBA PHT 001 New York World-Telegram photographic materials

Dimensions6.5 x 8 in.

Copyrighthttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

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